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Brooke County, WV

57 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 22.8% rated Good, 59.6% Fair, 17.5% Poor.

57
Public bridges: 22.8%
Good condition: 17.5%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Brooke County posts a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

28th
of 55 on Poor share: 17.5%
Poor-condition share: 57
public highway bridges: 1983
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.

Brooke County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Brooke County ranks #28 of 55 West Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 17.5%). Brooke County, West Virginia contains 57 public highway bridges. Roughly 22.8% are rated “Good,” 59.6% “Fair,” and 17.5% “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.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Brooke County

Good condition

22.8%

13 of 57 rated 7-9

Fair condition

59.6%

34 of 57 rated 5-6

Poor condition

17.5%

10 of 57 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#28 of 55

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

Condition distribution

Share of 57 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

22.8% (13)

Fair

59.6% (34)

Poor

17.5% (10)

Brooke County's Poor-condition bridges carry 56,600 vehicle crossings a day

That is 22.9% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 17.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 5,660 crossings a day against 3,369 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 57 of 57 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

17.5% of Brooke County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

10 of the 57 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 22.8% 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.

One structure carries 39% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

US Route 22 over Ramp D Railroad, built 1984, carries 22,100 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 10-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 56,600 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1900s

2
1910s

2
1940s

4
1960s

2
1970s

5
1980s

14
1990s

19
2000s

3
2010s

2
2020s

4

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 19 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 33.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1983) matches the West Virginia average (1980).

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

The 5 West Virginia counties nearest Brooke County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 17.5% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1983 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is 12 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 54 West Virginia counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Brooke County and the 5 West Virginia counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Taylor County	65	40%	52.3%	7.7%	1971
Mineral County	63	27%	65.1%	7.9%	1972
Monroe County	63	23.8%	61.9%	14.3%	1983
Brooke County (this page)	57	22.8%	59.6%	17.5%	1983
Morgan County	55	18.2%	56.4%	25.5%	1961
Calhoun County	49	38.8%	34.7%	26.5%	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 Brooke 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 Brooke County, both outside West Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside WV (57 bridges here).

Summit County, CO · 57 bridges
DeSoto County, FL · 57 bridges
Dodge County, GA · 57 bridges
McIntosh County, GA · 57 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside WV (1983 here).

Dallas County, TX · avg 1983 · 3,230 bridges
Bexar County, TX · avg 1983 · 2,342 bridges
Sedgwick County, KS · avg 1983 · 1,333 bridges
Will County, IL · avg 1983 · 649 bridges

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

All 57 Good 13 Fair 34 Poor 10

Fair-condition bridges (34)

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Brooke County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Brooke County's Poor-condition bridges carry 56,600 vehicle crossings a day

17.5% of Brooke County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 39% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

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

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

Fair-condition bridges (34)

County Route 20

HARP Road 953

West Virginia 67

County Route 1

County Route 32

County Route 32

US Route 22

Exit 2 - US22 RAMP

County Route 30

Ramp B (to US22 W)

West Virginia 67

CR 1/8

West Virginia 2

County Route 32/1

West Virginia 2

County Route 4

COUNTY ROUTE 32

West Virginia 88

Exit #3 ramp US22

County Route 2/2

West Virginia 67

US 22 EB & WB

West Virginia 2 NB

West Virginia 2

WV 2 South

County Route 2/17

County Route 7

County Route 26/1

County Route 7/6

Ramp D (US 22)

County Route 7

West Virginia 67

County Route 7

County Route 27/4

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