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Price County, WI

104 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 53.8% rated Good, 35.6% Fair, 10.6% Poor.

104
Public bridges
53.8%
Good condition
10.6%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

62nd
of 72 on Poor share
10.6%
Poor-condition share
104
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.

Price County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Price County ranks #62 of 72 Wisconsin counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 10.6%). Price County, Wisconsin contains 104 public highway bridges. Roughly 53.8% are rated “Good,” 35.6% “Fair,” and 10.6% “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

104

Public highway bridges in Price County

Good condition

53.8%

56 of 104 rated 7-9

Fair condition

35.6%

37 of 104 rated 5-6

Poor condition

10.6%

11 of 104 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#62 of 72

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

Condition distribution

Share of 104 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
53.8% (56)
Fair
35.6% (37)
Poor
10.6% (11)

Price County's Poor-condition bridges carry 1,584 vehicle crossings a day

That is 2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10.6% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 144 crossings a day against 717 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 104 of 104 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

34.6% of Price County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

36 of the 104 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 53.8% 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 22.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

LRD OLD HWY 8 over S FK JUMP RIVER, built 1937, carries 355 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 11-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 1,584 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Price County's bridges were built

104 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1970s, when 18 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 17.3% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 45 to 54 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1982) matches the Wisconsin average (1984).

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

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

The 5 Wisconsin counties nearest Price County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 10.6% Poor share is the 5th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1982 against a peer-group mean of 1989 is 7 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Price County and the 5 Wisconsin counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Kenosha County 109 3.7%
Ozaukee County 105 2.9%
Price County (this page) 104 10.6%
Bayfield County 103 4.9%
Sawyer County 97 12.4%
Kewaunee County 93 5.4%

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 Price 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 Price County, both outside Wisconsin so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside WI (104 bridges here).

Similar average build year

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

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

All 104 Good 56 Fair 37 Poor 11

All bridges (104)

USH 8

Good

Over: SOMO CREEK

2.8M E JCT CTH D TO S, Price, WI

Built 1981 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,300

USH 8

Good

Over: LITTLE SOMO CREEK

2.4M E JCT CTH D TO S, Price, WI

Built 1983 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 2,300

CTH D

Good

Over: KNOX CREEK

TOWN OF KNOX 2.3 M N HYW, Price, WI

Built 2001 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 182

STH 13 NB

Good

Over: HAY CREEK

3.9M N JCT USH 8, Price, WI

Built 2003 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 3,300

USH 8

Good

Over: S FORK MAIN CREEK

2.0M W JCT J, Price, WI

Built 2015 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,300

USH 8

Good

Over: MORGAN CREEK

1.05 M W OF JCT CTH J NO, Price, WI

Built 2015 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 1,400

STH 13

Good

Over: BR N FK JUMP RIVER

8.1M N JCT USH 8, Price, WI

Built 2018 Load: 32.4 t ADT: 3,300

LRD MORNER RD (DEA

Good

Over: DOUGLAS CREEK

0.3M E JCT CTH C, Price, WI

Built 2009 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 100

CTH W

Good

Over: LONG LAKE

2.4M W JCT STH13, Price, WI

Built 2020 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 1,552

USH 8

Good

Over: S FK JUMP RIVER

0.3M E JCT CTH A, Price, WI

Built 1978 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 2,300

LRD TEN CROSSING R

Good

Over: LITTLE JUMP RIVER

3.3M N JCT STH 86, Price, WI

Built 1991 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 41

TURNER LAKE ROAD

Good

Over: SQUAW CREEK

0.6M N JCT STH 70, Price, WI

Built 2020 Load: 34.2 t ADT: 103

LRD HOBBLES CREEK

Good

Over: HOBBLES CREEK

3 MILES WEST OF INTERSECT, Price, WI

Built 2014 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 56

CTH A

Good

Over: S FK JUMP RIVER

0.2M S JCT USH 8, Price, WI

Built 2021 Load: 35.3 t ADT: 1,814

LRD THOROFARE RD (

Good

Over: ROUND LAKE OUTLET

2.1M N JCT STH 70, Price, WI

Built 1990 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 108

LRD GREEN CREEK RD

Good

Over: WEB CREEK

0.3M W JCT CTH N, Price, WI

Built 1993 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 33

LRD RIVER RD (DEAD

Good

Over: N FK SPIRIT RIVER

1.1M N JCT STH 86, Price, WI

Built 2005 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 104

LRD HALSTRAND RD

Good

Over: HOLMES CREEK

0.5M N JCT STH 86, Price, WI

Built 2009 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 106

STH 102

Good

Over: S FK SPIRIT R

6 MILE SOUTH OF STH 86, Price, WI

Built 2011 Load: 36.3 t ADT: 390

STH 13

Good

Over: S. FK JUMP RIVER

6.3M N JCT STH 86, Price, WI

Built 1979 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 1,900

LRD HALLSTRAND RD

Good

Over: LITTLE JUMP RIVER

2.1M N JCT STH 86, Price, WI

Built 1989 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 58

LRD EAST FLEMING R

Good

Over: BUTTERNUT CREEK

1.2M W JCT CTH E, Price, WI

Built 1993 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 74

LRD MUSSER DRIVE

Good

Over: BR MUSSER CREEK

0.8M W JCT CTH H, Price, WI

Built 2005 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 63

LRD HAY CREEK RD (

Good

Over: HAY CREEK

0.3M N JCT USH 8, Price, WI

Built 1991 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 33

LRD BUCKHORN RD

Good

Over: BUTTERNUT CREEK

0.6M S JCT CTH E, Price, WI

Built 1993 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 45

LRD MORNER RD (DEA

Good

Over: SOUTH FORK JUMP RIVER

2.2M W JCT STH 13, Price, WI

Built 1993 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 20

LRD HAY CREEK RD

Good

Over: S FK JUMP RIVER

2.4M S JCT USH 8, Price, WI

Built 1994 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 42

LRD MAIL ROUTE RD

Good

Over: S FK JUMP RIVER

1.8M E JCT CTH K, Price, WI

Built 1996 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 61

CTH C

Good

Over: DOUGLAS CREEK

2.5M S JCT STH 13, Price, WI

Built 2021 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 193

USH 8

Good

Over: BR DOUGLAS CREEK

4.1M E JCT STH 13, Price, WI

Built 1993 Load: 40.5 t ADT: 1,600

FR 136

Good

Over: SAILOR CREEK

6.6 MILES SE FIFIELD WI, Price, WI

Built 2010 Load: 40.8 t ADT: 50

LRD MORNER RD

Good

Over: DOUGLAS CREEK

1.3M W JCT CTH C, Price, WI

Built 1988 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 56

LRD TROUT RD

Good

Over: BUTTERNUT CREEK

0.1M S JCT CTH B, Price, WI

Built 1993 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 35

LRD HILLCREST RD

Good

Over: LITTLE ELK RIVER

1.1M N JCT CTH D, Price, WI

Built 1993 Load: 42.1 t ADT: 43

LRD SHEEP RANCH RD

Good

Over: ELK RIVER

1.1M E JCT CTH H, Price, WI

Built 2017 Load: 42.4 t ADT: 43

STH 111

Good

Over: NEEDLE CR

1.3M N USH 8, Price, WI

Built 2017 Load: 43.1 t ADT: 660

CTH B

Good

Over: BUTTERNUT CREEK

1.4M N JCT CTH E, Price, WI

Built 2017 Load: 44.1 t ADT: 194

FR 144

Good

Over: SPRINGSTEAD CREEK

18 MI E OF PARK FALLS WI, Price, WI

Built 2022 Load: 44.4 t ADT: 360

LRD OLD 13 ROAD

Good

Over: SAILOR CR

0.5 MI N JCT PETERS RD., Price, WI

Built 2010 Load: 45.4 t ADT: 272

CTH E

Good

Over: SMITH CREEK

2.1M W JCT STH 13, Price, WI

Built 2007 Load: 47.0 t ADT: 838

STH 182

Good

Over: NORTH FORK FLAMBEAU RIVE

0.3M E JCT STH 13, Price, WI

Built 2017 Load: 52.2 t ADT: 4,500

FR 653

Good

Over: SAILOR CREEK

7.8 miles SE of Fifield, Price, WI

Built 2019 Load: 59.9 t ADT: 5

FR136

Good

Over: ELK RIVER

8.5M. S. JCT. STH 70, Price, WI

Built 1997 Load: 62.9 t ADT: 20

LRD LARKIN RD

Poor

Over: HOLMES CREEK

3 MI EAST OF STH 13, Price, WI

Built 1960 Load: 9.7 t ADT: 57

LRD OLD USH 8

Poor

Over: HAY CREEK

2.8M W JCT STH 13, Price, WI

Built 1921 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 111

CTH D

Poor

Over: N FK SPIRIT RIVER

1.0M N JCT STH 86, Price, WI

Built 1965 Load: 19.4 t ADT: 196

LRD SQUAW CREEK RD

Poor

Over: SQUAW CREEK

1.2M N JCT CTH H, Price, WI

Built 1920 Load: 21.1 t ADT: 283

LRD PRENTICE RD

Poor

Over: DOUGLAS CREEK

2.6M S JCT STH 13, Price, WI

Built 1929 Load: 21.1 t ADT: 89

CTH O

Poor

Over: S FK JUMP RIVER

7.5M E JCT USH 8, Price, WI

Built 1959 Load: 22.7 t ADT: 112

LRD OLD HWY 8

Poor

Over: S FK JUMP RIVER

0.1M E JCT STH 13, Price, WI

Built 1937 Load: 25.9 t ADT: 355

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