Total bridges
57
Public highway bridges in Brooke County
County profile · official public datasets
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.
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.
When Brooke County's bridges were built
57 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 2
1900–1909
2 bridges
- 1910s 2
1910–1919
2 bridges
- 1940s 4
1940–1949
4 bridges
- 1960s 2
1960–1969
2 bridges
- 1970s 5
1970–1979
5 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
14 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
19 bridges
- 2000s 3
2000–2009
3 bridges
- 2010s 2
2010–2019
2 bridges
- 2020s 4
2020–2029
4 bridges
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.
| 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 bridges (57)
Ramp A from US 22
PoorOver: Railroad
0.01 mi. West jct WV 2, Brooke, WV
Built 1984 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 4,200
West Virginia 67
PoorOver: Buffalo Creek
0.53 mi. East jct CR 32, Brooke, WV
Built 1991 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 300
West Virginia 67
PoorOver: Buffalo Creek
0.06 mi West jct CR67/5, Brooke, WV
Built 1978 Load: 37.2 t ADT: 2,600
WV 2 N (Ramp E)
PoorOver: US 22 & Ramp G
2.11 mi. East OHIO LINE, Brooke, WV
Built 1993 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 11,200
County Route 20
PoorOver: Pierce Run
0.70 Mi. East Jct. WV 67, Brooke, WV
Built 1985 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 250
County Route 7
PoorOver: Cross Creek
0.28 mi. East jct WV 2, Brooke, WV
Built 1960 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 3,700
US Route 22
PoorOver: Ramp D Railroad
0.09 mi. West jct WV 2, Brooke, WV
Built 1984 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 22,100
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