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Outagamie County, WI

290 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 49.7% rated Good, 46.2% Fair, 4.1% Poor.

290
Public bridges: 49.7%
Good condition: 4.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Outagamie County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across mid-size county bridge inventory.

Top 29%
lowest Poor share in state: 4.1%
Poor-condition share: 290
public highway bridges: 1982
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.

Outagamie County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Outagamie County ranks #21 of 72 Wisconsin counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 4.1%). Outagamie County, Wisconsin contains 290 public highway bridges. Roughly 49.7% are rated “Good,” 46.2% “Fair,” and 4.1% “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

290

Public highway bridges in Outagamie County

Good condition

49.7%

144 of 290 rated 7-9

Fair condition

46.2%

134 of 290 rated 5-6

Poor condition

4.1%

12 of 290 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#21 of 72

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

Condition distribution

Share of 290 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

49.7% (144)

Fair

46.2% (134)

Poor

4.1% (12)

Outagamie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,778 vehicle crossings a day

That is 0.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 4.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 1,148 crossings a day against 4,846 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 290 of 290 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

33.8% of Outagamie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

98 of the 290 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 49.7% 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 29% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CTH KK over KANKAPOT CREEK, built 1948, carries 3,997 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 12-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 13,778 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

1
1900s

2
1910s

7
1920s

7
1930s

8
1940s

6
1950s

15
1960s

44
1970s

22
1980s

43
1990s

60
2000s

39
2010s

14
2020s

22

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 60 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 20.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1982) matches the Wisconsin average (1984).

How Outagamie County compares with Wisconsin's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Wisconsin counties nearest Outagamie County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 4.1% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1982 against a peer-group mean of 1987 is 5 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 71 Wisconsin counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Outagamie County and the 5 Wisconsin counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Rock County	304	61.2%	35.2%	3.6%	1994
Richland County	298	54%	41.9%	4%	1986
St. Croix County	298	68.1%	28.9%	3%	1986
Clark County	296	54.4%	33.4%	12.2%	1983
Outagamie County (this page)	290	49.7%	46.2%	4.1%	1982
Sauk County	271	53.9%	37.3%	8.9%	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 Outagamie 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 Outagamie County, both outside Wisconsin so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside WI (290 bridges here).

Knox County, IN · 290 bridges
Putnam County, IN · 290 bridges
Monroe County, MS · 290 bridges
Yellowstone County, MT · 290 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside WI (1982 here).

Oklahoma County, OK · avg 1982 · 1,216 bridges
Jackson County, MO · avg 1982 · 930 bridges
Champaign County, IL · avg 1982 · 727 bridges
Broward County, FL · avg 1982 · 686 bridges

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

All 290 Good 144 Fair 134 Poor 12

Fair-condition bridges (134)

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Outagamie County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Outagamie County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,778 vehicle crossings a day

33.8% of Outagamie County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 29% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Outagamie County compares with Wisconsin'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 (134)

LRD KRULL RD

STH 96-MAIN ST

IH 41 SB

LRD APPLETON ST SB

LRD BUBOLTZ RD

LRD SEMINARY ROAD

LRD RAY RD

CTH P

CTH CC

CTH C

LRD FISH CREEK RD

USH 15

IH USH 10-IH 41

CTH D

CTH WW

STH 96

STH 187

CTH F

CTH BB

CTH EE

CTH G

LRD RANCH RD

CTH JJ

LRD GLORY LANE

LRD FISH CREEK RD

IH USH 10-IH 41

CTH CE

LRD PROVIDENCE RD

LRD SPRINGFIELD DR

LRD SANCTUARY WAY

CTH M NASH ST

CTH E BALLARD RD

LRD OLD SEYMOUR RD

CTH KK

CTH OO

IH 41 NB

CTH Z DODGE ST

STH 47-MEMORIAL DR

LRD HOLLAND ROAD

CTH JJ

LRD SPURR RD

IH41 NB

LRD PROVIDENCE AVE

LRD OLDE ONEIDA ST

IH 41SB

LRD ONEIDA STREET

LRD PACIFIC ST

LRD CENTER VALLEY

STH 54-STH 76-WEST

STH 15 WB

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