Total bridges
207
Public highway bridges in Greenbrier County
County profile · official public datasets
Greenbrier County, WV
207 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 22.7% rated Good, 64.3% Fair, 13% Poor.
- 207
- Public bridges
- 22.7%
- Good condition
- 13%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Greenbrier County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.
- Top 20%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 13%
- Poor-condition share
- 207
- public highway bridges
- 1979
- 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.
Greenbrier County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Greenbrier County ranks #11 of 55 West Virginia counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 13%). Greenbrier County, West Virginia contains 207 public highway bridges. Roughly 22.7% are rated “Good,” 64.3% “Fair,” and 13% “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
22.7%
47 of 207 rated 7-9
Fair condition
64.3%
133 of 207 rated 5-6
Poor condition
13%
27 of 207 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#11 of 55
Among West Virginia counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 207 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 22.7% (47)
Fair 64.3% (133)
Poor 13% (27)
Greenbrier County's Poor-condition bridges carry 57,025 vehicle crossings a day
That is 12.7% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 13% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,112 crossings a day against 874 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 207 of 207 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
44% of Greenbrier County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
91 of the 207 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 22.7% 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 17.6% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
I-64 EBL & WBL over HARTS RUN, built 1967, carries 10,015 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 27-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 57,025 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Greenbrier County's bridges were built
207 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- pre-1900 1
Built before 1900
1 bridges
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1910s 4
1910–1919
4 bridges
- 1920s 4
1920–1929
4 bridges
- 1930s 10
1930–1939
10 bridges
- 1940s 3
1940–1949
3 bridges
- 1950s 9
1950–1959
9 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
51 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
21 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
23 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
34 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
21 bridges
- 2010s 17
2010–2019
17 bridges
- 2020s 8
2020–2029
8 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1960s, when 51 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.6% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 55 to 64 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1979) matches the West Virginia average (1980).
How Greenbrier County compares with West Virginia's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 West Virginia counties nearest Greenbrier County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 13% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1979 against a peer-group mean of 1979 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 54 West Virginia counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fayette County | 211 | 19% | 67.8% | 13.3% | 1982 |
| Cabell County | 207 | 25.1% | 57.5% | 17.4% | 1984 |
| Greenbrier County (this page) | 207 | 22.7% | 64.3% | 13% | 1979 |
| Monongalia County | 203 | 36.9% | 42.9% | 20.2% | 1980 |
| Marion County | 193 | 48.2% | 30.6% | 21.2% | 1977 |
| Jackson County | 191 | 38.2% | 38.2% | 23.6% | 1973 |
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 Greenbrier 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 Greenbrier County, both outside West Virginia so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside WV (207 bridges here).
- Marin County, CA · 207 bridges
- Las Animas County, CO · 207 bridges
- Shelby County, IA · 207 bridges
- Washington County, IA · 207 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside WV (1979 here).
- Pima County, AZ · avg 1979 · 1,150 bridges
- Jefferson County, KY · avg 1979 · 662 bridges
- Spartanburg County, SC · avg 1979 · 638 bridges
- McPherson County, KS · avg 1979 · 586 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Fair-condition bridges (133)
COUNTY ROUTE 1/2
FairOver: BIG CLEAR CREEK
0.02 Miles E. of CR 1, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1966 Load: 6.3 t ADT: 21
HINES AVE.
FairOver: WADES CREEK
NE CORNER OF HATCHERY, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1950 Load: 6.4 t ADT: 30
MILL HILL DRIVE
FairOver: WADES CREEK
0.20 Miles N. of US 60, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1973 Load: 9.1 t ADT: 50
COUNTY ROUTE 16
FairOver: ANTHONY CREEK
0.06 Miles W. of CR 16/2, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1917 Load: 11.8 t ADT: 100
COUNTY ROUTE 10
FairOver: MCCALLISTER RUN
0.20 Miles N. of CR 9/4, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1916 Load: 14.5 t ADT: 131
COUNTY ROUTE 25
FairOver: MUDDY CREEK
0.25 Miles North of WV 12, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1923 Load: 14.5 t ADT: 450
COUNTY ROUTE 31
FairOver: KITCHEN CREEK
0.37 Miles W. of CR 37/2, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1900 Load: 14.5 t ADT: 150
COUNTY ROUTE 62/1
FairOver: SECOND CREEK
0.81 Miles N. of CR 62, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1923 Load: 17.2 t ADT: 55
COUNTY ROUTE 60/3
FairOver: OTTER CREEK
0.36 Miles W. of CR 20/4, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1957 Load: 18.1 t ADT: 307
COUNTY ROUTE 43
FairOver: GREENBRIER RIVER
0.01 Miles N. of CR 43/1, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1925 Load: 19.0 t ADT: 650
COUNTY ROUTE 15/3
FairOver: WHITES DRAFT
0.67 Miles E. of CR 92/5, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1974 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 90
COUNTY ROUTE 40/3
FairOver: MILLIGAN CREEK
0.02 Miles N. of CR 60/22, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1932 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 11
COUNTY ROUTE 10/1
FairOver: LITTLE ROARING CREEK
0.15 Miles N. of CR 10, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1977 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 150
WV 20
FairOver: MEADOW CREEK
0.14 Miles S. of CR 20/18, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1959 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 2,700
WV 39
FairOver: BEAR RUN
7.60 Miles E. of CR 39/5, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1945 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 770
COUNTY ROUTE 20/2
FairOver: LITTLE SEWELL CREEK
0.29 Miles E. of CR 24, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1977 Load: 24.5 t ADT: 21
COUNTY ROUTE 60/22
FairOver: MILLIGAN CREEK
0.05 Miles N. of CR 40/3, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1961 Load: 26.3 t ADT: 21
NO DATA ENTERED
FairOver: BEAR RUN
NO DATA ENTERED, Greenbrier, WV
Built 2020 Load: 26.6 t ADT: 50
COUNTY ROUTE 60/18
FairOver: MEADOW RIVER
0.82 Miles W. of US 60, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1960 Load: 27.2 t ADT: 10
COUNTY ROUTE 25
FairOver: MUDDY CREEK
0.23 Miles S. of CR 68, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1978 Load: 28.1 t ADT: 300
COUNTY ROUTE 10/2
FairOver: ROARING CREEK
0.08 Miles S. of CR 10, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1977 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 30
US 60
FairOver: LITTLE SEWELL CREEK
0.10 Miles W. of CR 60/1, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1931 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 5,750
I-64 EBL
FairOver: HOWARDS CREEK
0.70 Miles W. of CR 60/14, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1967 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 5,950
I-64 WBL
FairOver: HOWARD CREEK
0.70 Miles W. of CR 60/14, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1967 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 5,950
WV 12
FairOver: MILL CREEK
0.83 Miles N. of CR 54/3, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1934 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 1,849
COUNTY ROUTE 31
FairOver: MUDDY CREEK
1.12 Miles E. of CR 31/1, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1997 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 150
US 60
FairOver: PRICE RUN
0.10 Miles E. of CR 60/17, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1930 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 5,779
COUNTY ROUTE 25
FairOver: I 64 and Smoot Branch
0.21 Miles S. of CR 25/8, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1986 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 1,100
COUNTY ROUTE 60/87
FairOver: HOWARD CREEK
0.15 Miles N. of US 60, Greenbrier, WV
Built 2004 Load: 29.9 t ADT: 30
I-64 EBL
FairOver: COUNTY ROUTE 9
2.10 Miles W. of WV 12, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1968 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 11,605
I-64 WBL
FairOver: COUNTY ROUTE 9
2.10 Miles W. of WV 12, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1968 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 13,699
I-64 EB
FairOver: US 60
3.52 Miles W. of US 219, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1968 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 6,495
I-64 WB
FairOver: US 60
3.52 Miles W. of US 219, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1968 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 15,099
COUNTY ROUTE 68
FairOver: MUDDY CREEK
0.83 Miles N. of CR 25, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1955 Load: 30.8 t ADT: 51
WV 92
FairOver: HOWARDS CREEK
0.59 Miles N. of CR 15/11, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1995 Load: 31.7 t ADT: 2,328
COUNTY ROUTE 9
FairOver: SINKING CREEK
0.28 Miles W. of CR 9/6, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1979 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 445
I-64 EBL & WBL
FairOver: COUNTY ROUTE 60/20
1.97 Miles W. of CR 60/14, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1967 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 11,079
WV 92
FairOver: WADES CREEK
0.01 Miles N. of US 60, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1965 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 3,527
WV 92
FairOver: WHITMANS DRAFT
0.05 Miles S. of CR 15/13, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1962 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,754
WV 92
FairOver: WHITES DRAFT
0.01 Miles N. of CR 16, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1962 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 1,600
COUNTY ROUTE 60/32
FairOver: LITTLE SEWELL CREEK
0.36 Miles E. of CR 20/17, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1977 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 700
I-64 EBL
FairOver: OTTER CREEK
0.34 Miles W. of US 60, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1986 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,803
I-64 WBL
FairOver: OTTER CREEK
0.34 Miles W. of US 60, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1986 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 5,803
COUNTY ROUTE 1/2
FairOver: TRIB. TO BIG CLEAR CREEK
0.14 Miles E. of CR 1, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1997 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 21
WV 39
FairOver: North Fork Cherry River
4.77 Miles E. of CR 39/5, Greenbrier, WV
Built 2023 Load: 32.7 t ADT: 550
COUNTY ROUTE 1
FairOver: N. FORK BIG CLEAR CREEK
1.94 Miles N. of CR 1/1, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1973 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 62
COUNTY ROUTE 60/7
FairOver: I 64 EBL and WBL
0.61 Miles North of US 60, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1972 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 155
COUNTY ROUTE 5
FairOver: ROBBINS RUN
0.03 Miles S. of CR 5/2, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1999 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 151
WV 92
FairOver: POND LICK RUN
0.36 Miles N. of CR 15/11, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1965 Load: 34.5 t ADT: 2,054
COUNTY ROUTE 14
FairOver: MEADOW CREEK
0.05 Miles S. of CR 14/1, Greenbrier, WV
Built 1972 Load: 35.4 t ADT: 22
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