Total bridges
8
Public highway bridges in Winchester city County
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Winchester city County, VA
8 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 12.5% rated Good, 75% Fair, 12.5% Poor.
- 8
- Public bridges
- 12.5%
- Good condition
- 12.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Winchester city County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 121st
- of 129 on Poor share
- 12.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 8
- public highway bridges
- 1969
- 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.
Winchester city County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Winchester city County ranks #121 of 129 Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 12.5%). Winchester city County, Virginia contains 8 public highway bridges. Roughly 12.5% are rated “Good,” 75% “Fair,” and 12.5% “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
12.5%
1 of 8 rated 7-9
Fair condition
75%
6 of 8 rated 5-6
Poor condition
12.5%
1 of 8 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#121 of 129
Among Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 8 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 12.5% (1)
Fair 75% (6)
Poor 12.5% (1)
Winchester city County's Poor-condition bridges carry 17,374 vehicle crossings a day
That is 12.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 12.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 17,374 crossings a day against 9,780 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 8 of 8 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
50% of Winchester city County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
4 of the 8 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 12.5% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
MILLWOOD PIKE over I-81, built 1964, carries 17,374 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 17,374 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Winchester city County's bridges were built
8 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1940s
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
1 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
2 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
1 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 2 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 25% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1969, 5 years older than the Virginia average of 1974.
How Winchester city County compares with Virginia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Virginia counties nearest Winchester city County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 12.5% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1969 against a peer-group mean of 1969 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 128 Virginia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colonial Heights city County | 9 | 0% | 88.9% | 11.1% | 1986 |
| Lancaster County | 9 | 22.2% | 66.7% | 11.1% | 1959 |
| Covington city County | 8 | 37.5% | 50% | 12.5% | 1962 |
| Lexington city County | 8 | 25% | 62.5% | 12.5% | 1956 |
| Winchester city County (this page) | 8 | 12.5% | 75% | 12.5% | 1969 |
| Emporia city County | 7 | 57.1% | 42.9% | 0% | 1984 |
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 Winchester city County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Poor-condition bridges (1)
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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.