Total bridges
105
Public highway bridges in Pulaski County
County profile · official public datasets
Pulaski County, VA
105 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 30.5% rated Good, 66.7% Fair, 2.9% Poor.
- 105
- Public bridges
- 30.5%
- Good condition
- 2.9%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Pulaski County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 47%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 2.9%
- Poor-condition share
- 105
- public highway bridges
- 1965
- avg year built
Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.
Pulaski County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Pulaski County ranks #60 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 2.9%). Pulaski County, Virginia contains 105 public highway bridges. Roughly 30.5% are rated “Good,” 66.7% “Fair,” and 2.9% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.
Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.
Good condition
30.5%
32 of 105 rated 7-9
Fair condition
66.7%
70 of 105 rated 5-6
Poor condition
2.9%
3 of 105 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#60 of 129
Among Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 105 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 30.5% (32)
Fair 66.7% (70)
Poor 2.9% (3)
Pulaski County's Poor-condition bridges carry 16,851 vehicle crossings a day
That is 2.5% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 2.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 5,617 crossings a day against 1,542 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.
Computed over the 105 of 105 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
66.7% of Pulaski County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
70 of the 105 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 30.5% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.
Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
One structure carries 44.8% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
ROUTE 0011 over Sproules Run, built 1936, carries 7,544 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 3-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 16,851 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Pulaski County's bridges were built
105 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s 4
1920–1929
4 bridges
- 1930s
1930–1939
24 bridges
- 1950s 7
1950–1959
7 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
29 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
13 bridges
- 1980s 5
1980–1989
5 bridges
- 1990s 11
1990–1999
11 bridges
- 2000s 7
2000–2009
7 bridges
- 2010s 2
2010–2019
2 bridges
- 2020s 3
2020–2029
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 29 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 27.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1965, 9 years older than the Virginia average of 1974.
How Pulaski County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Virginia counties nearest Pulaski County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 2.9% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1965 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is 12 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 128 Virginia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford County | 112 | 38.4% | 59.8% | 1.8% | 1987 |
| Caroline County | 107 | 22.4% | 72.9% | 4.7% | 1975 |
| Sussex County | 105 | 13.3% | 86.7% | 0% | 1973 |
| Pulaski County (this page) | 105 | 30.5% | 66.7% | 2.9% | 1965 |
| Spotsylvania County | 102 | 35.3% | 64.7% | 0% | 1980 |
| Culpeper County | 99 | 26.3% | 69.7% | 4% | 1971 |
Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Pulaski County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year
Two NBI-derived peer sets for Pulaski County, both outside Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside VA (105 bridges here).
- Bradley County, AR · 105 bridges
- Fulton County, AR · 105 bridges
- Izard County, AR · 105 bridges
- Calaveras County, CA · 105 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside VA (1965 here).
- Windsor County, VT · avg 1965 · 483 bridges
- Bedford County, PA · avg 1965 · 417 bridges
- Crawford County, PA · avg 1965 · 399 bridges
- Harper County, KS · avg 1965 · 372 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (70)
ROUTE F327
FairOver: RTES I 81 & 100
0.00-SERV/RD; 0.07-RT 748, Pulaski, VA
Built 1959 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 910
BROOKMONT Rd/640
FairOver: NORTH FORK PEAK CREEK
2.65-RT 738; 1.00-RT 674, Pulaski, VA
Built 1977 Load: 55.3 t ADT: 257
RTE. 11 NBL
FairOver: NEW RIVER & NS RAILWAY
0.0 PULASKI CO;0.0 RAD CL, Pulaski, VA
Built 2005 Load: 56.2 t ADT: 12,408
CLEBURNE BLVD./100
FairOver: BACK CREEK
0.70-Rt 627; 0.10-Rt 733, Pulaski, VA
Built 1974 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 3,034
BooneFurnaceRd/607
FairOver: Little Reed Island Creek
1.33-Rte608; 0.58-Rte752, Pulaski, VA
Built 1991 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 313
Brookmont Rd./640
FairOver: North Fork Peak Creek
3.40-Rte738; 0.25-Rte674, Pulaski, VA
Built 1977 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 257
Brookmont Rd./640
FairOver: North Fork Peak Creek
2.5O-Rt 738; 1.15-Rt 674, Pulaski, VA
Built 1932 Load: 57.2 t ADT: 257
Kent Farm Rd./628
FairOver: Back Creek
1.75-Rte100; 0.45-end rte, Pulaski, VA
Built 1932 Load: 58.1 t ADT: 156
Lowmans Fery Rd672
FairOver: Claytor Lake
0.40-Rte693; 1.65-Rte670, Pulaski, VA
Built 1935 Load: 59.0 t ADT: 2,193
Lead Mine Road/693
FairOver: Little River
0.00-Montg.Co;0.00-Pulask, Pulaski, VA
Built 2000 Load: 60.8 t ADT: 645
BooneFurnaceRd.607
FairOver: Little Reed Island Creek
0.13-Rte608; 1.75-Rte752, Pulaski, VA
Built 1991 Load: 63.5 t ADT: 313
Lee Highway /11SBL
FairOver: Thornspring Branch
.98-Rte643W ; .78-Rte645, Pulaski, VA
Built 1922 Load: 77.1 t ADT: 5,888
Ruebush Road / 617
FairOver: Branch of Neck Creek
0.55-Rte627; 3.85-Rte11, Pulaski, VA
Built 1978 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 706
IzaakWaltonlgrd619
FairOver: Clyboard Branch
0.50-Rte631; 1.00-Rte693, Pulaski, VA
Built 1988 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 147
ThornSpring Rd/643
FairOver: Little Walker Creek
0.00-Rte601; 4.50-Rte636, Pulaski, VA
Built 2005 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 40
100NBL/ClebourneBV
FairOver: Rte 11
0.54-SDublin;0.18-NDublin, Pulaski, VA
Built 1950 Load: 88.9 t ADT: 3,003
I-81
FairOver: Branch of Slone Branch
3.09-Rte99; 1.28-Rte100, Pulaski, VA
Built 1965 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 45,109
SBL Rte I-81
FairOver: Branch of Claytor Lake
1.01-Rte660; 2.79-Mont Co, Pulaski, VA
Built 1965 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 22,420
I-81
FairOver: Branch of Claytor Lake
1.40-Rte660;02.40-Mont.Co, Pulaski, VA
Built 1965 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 20,204
BooneFurnaceRd/607
FairOver: Little Reed Island Crk
0.46-Rte608; 1.49-Rte752, Pulaski, VA
Built 1991 Load: 89.8 t ADT: 313
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