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Surry County, VA

31 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 25.8% rated Good, 74.2% Fair, 0% Poor.

31
Public bridges: 25.8%
Good condition: 0%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Surry County pairs a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

Top 10%
lowest Poor share in state: 0%
Poor-condition share: 31
public highway bridges: 1967
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.

Surry County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Surry County ranks #13 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Surry County, Virginia contains 31 public highway bridges. Roughly 25.8% are rated “Good,” 74.2% “Fair,” and 0% “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.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Surry County

Good condition

25.8%

8 of 31 rated 7-9

Fair condition

74.2%

23 of 31 rated 5-6

Poor condition

0 of 31 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#13 of 129

Among Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 31 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

25.8% (8)

Fair

74.2% (23)

Poor

0% (0)

67.7% of Surry County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

21 of the 31 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 25.8% 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.

1920s

1
1930s

6
1950s

6
1960s

5
1970s

5
1980s

1
1990s

3
2000s

1
2010s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 6 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 19.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1967, 7 years older than the Virginia average of 1974.

How Surry County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Virginia counties nearest Surry County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1967 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is 10 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 128 Virginia counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Surry County and the 5 Virginia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
King and Queen County	32	31.3%	59.4%	9.4%	1977
King William County	32	25%	75%	0%	1976
Accomack County	31	35.5%	61.3%	3.2%	1990
Surry County (this page)	31	25.8%	74.2%	0%	1967
King George County	30	23.3%	76.7%	0%	1972
Alexandria city County	29	34.5%	65.5%	0%	1970

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 Surry 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 Surry County, both outside Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside VA (31 bridges here).

Hinsdale County, CO · 31 bridges
Kiowa County, CO · 31 bridges
Ogemaw County, MI · 31 bridges
Grant County, MN · 31 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside VA (1967 here).

Los Angeles County, CA · avg 1967 · 3,547 bridges
Allegheny County, PA · avg 1967 · 1,294 bridges
Sonoma County, CA · avg 1967 · 609 bridges
Merced County, CA · avg 1967 · 528 bridges

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 31 Good 8 Fair 23 Poor 0

All bridges (31)

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Surry County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

67.7% of Surry County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

How Surry County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (31)

Beaverdam Road

Goodrich Fork Road

Huntington Road

Alliance Road

Lawnes Drive

James River Drive

Southwark Road

Beechland Road

Lebanon Road

Rolfe Highway

Hog Island Road

Colonial Trail E

New Design Road

White Marsh Road

Scotland Ferry

James River Drive

Pleasant Point Rd

New Design Road

Rolfe Highway

White Marsh Road

Holly Bush Road

Cabin Point Road

Colonial Trail W

Cypress Swamp Lane

Sprately Mill Road

Cabin Point Road

Loafers Oak Road

Triple Bridge Road

Triple Bridge Road

Old Stage Highway

Plantation Road

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