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Wood County, WI

239 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 62.3% rated Good, 31.8% Fair, 5.9% Poor.

239
Public bridges
62.3%
Good condition
5.9%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

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

Top 47%
lowest Poor share in state
5.9%
Poor-condition share
239
public highway bridges
1986
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.

Wood County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Wood County ranks #34 of 72 Wisconsin counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 5.9%). Wood County, Wisconsin contains 239 public highway bridges. Roughly 62.3% are rated “Good,” 31.8% “Fair,” and 5.9% “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

239

Public highway bridges in Wood County

Good condition

62.3%

149 of 239 rated 7-9

Fair condition

31.8%

76 of 239 rated 5-6

Poor condition

5.9%

14 of 239 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#34 of 72

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

Condition distribution

Share of 239 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
62.3% (149)
Fair
31.8% (76)
Poor
5.9% (14)

Wood County's Poor-condition bridges carry 6,843 vehicle crossings a day

That is 1.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 5.9% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 489 crossings a day against 1,445 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 239 of 239 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

27.6% of Wood County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

66 of the 239 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 62.3% 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 39.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

CTH A over BR YELLOW RIVER, built 1936, carries 2,700 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 14-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 6,843 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Wood County's bridges were built

239 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 2000s, when 59 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 24.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 15 to 24 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1986) matches the Wisconsin average (1984).

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

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

The 5 Wisconsin counties nearest Wood County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 5.9% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1986 against a peer-group mean of 1982 is in line with the group.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Wood County and the 5 Wisconsin counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Dunn County 245 9%
Green County 244 8.6%
Sheboygan County 240 5.4%
Wood County (this page) 239 5.9%
Buffalo County 238 8.4%
Eau Claire County 236 7.6%

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside WI (239 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside WI (1986 here).

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

All 239 Good 149 Fair 76 Poor 14

Good-condition bridges (149)

LRD TOWN LINE RD

Good

Over: ROCKY RUN

2.3M E JCT CTH V, Wood, WI

Built 1994 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 30

LRD SQUAW CREEK RD

Good

Over: BR LITTLE EAU PLEINE R

0.9M N JCT CTH H, Wood, WI

Built 2001 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 201

CTH U

Good

Over: LAKE WAZEECHA

0.6M N JCT CTH WW, Wood, WI

Built 2001 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 4,300

CTH S

Good

Over: BEAR CREEK

1.7 MI S. JCT CTH H, Wood, WI

Built 2004 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 611

LRD BATTERMAN RD

Good

Over: BR CRANBERRY CREEK

2.6M W JCT CTH G, Wood, WI

Built 2004 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 42

CTH HH

Good

Over: E FK HEMLOCK CREEK

1.2M S JCT CTH N, Wood, WI

Built 2004 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 445

USH 10 WB

Good

Over: CTH P / CAN R/R

AT CTH P, Wood, WI

Built 2011 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 4,000

CTH N

Good

Over: BR MILL CREEK

0.78 MI E JCT CTH F, Wood, WI

Built 2021 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 320

CTH N

Good

Over: CUTLER CREEK

0.06 MI E JCT CTH S, Wood, WI

Built 2021 Load: 34.0 t ADT: 320

LRD NECEDAH RD

Good

Over: HEMLOCK CREEK

1.1M S JCT STH 173, Wood, WI

Built 2009 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 351

USH 10 EB

Good

Over: CTH P / R/R

AT CTH P, Wood, WI

Built 2011 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 4,000

STH 73 - STH 80

Good

Over: BR ROCKY CR

2.0M N STH 80 (C), Wood, WI

Built 2013 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 2,800

STH 80

Good

Over: BEAVER CREEK

0.3M N JCT CTH EE, Wood, WI

Built 2013 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 3,400

CTH N

Good

Over: PUFF CR

0.9M E CTH A, Wood, WI

Built 2013 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 620

STH 73-STH 80

Good

Over: YELLOW RIVER

0.9M N JCT STH 80 (C), Wood, WI

Built 2013 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 2,800

STH 80

Good

Over: BR YELLOW RIVER

2.6M N JCT CTH F TO E, Wood, WI

Built 2021 Load: 35.0 t ADT: 1,200

LRD HEMLOCK RD

Good

Over: HEMLOCK CREEK

2.8M W JCT CTH D, Wood, WI

Built 1981 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 185

LRD NORTH ROAD

Good

Over: MILL CREEK

2.3M N JCT CTH N, Wood, WI

Built 1989 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 50

LRD NORTH RD

Good

Over: BR HEMLOCK CREEK

0.8M N JCT STH 186, Wood, WI

Built 1991 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 80

LRD PLEASANT HILL

Good

Over: SQUAW CREEK

1.9M W JCT CTH M, Wood, WI

Built 1991 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 30

STH 73-W GRAND AVE

Good

Over: FV&W RR

0.8M N JCT CTH F (B), Wood, WI

Built 1992 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 6,200

STH 54-BAKER DR

Good

Over: FOX VALLEY & WESTERN

1.9M E JCT STH 13 TO S, Wood, WI

Built 1998 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 11,400

STH 13 N.B.

Good

Over: MILL CREEK

0.5M N JCT USH10, Wood, WI

Built 2003 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 8,700

LRD YELLOWSTONE RD

Good

Over: LITTLE BEAR CREEK

3.3M W JCT CTH S, Wood, WI

Built 2001 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 261

LRD GRONSKI ROAD (

Good

Over: BR YELLOW RIVER

0.1M E JCT STH80, Wood, WI

Built 2001 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 12

STH 173

Good

Over: CRANBERRY DITCH CROSSING

1.6M N JCT CTH D, Wood, WI

Built 2002 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 1,300

STH 66

Good

Over: RUDOLPH CREEK

0.9M W JCT CTH O, Wood, WI

Built 2004 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 4,600

LRD GEORGE RD

Good

Over: MOCCASIN CREEK

0.8M S JCT STH 73, Wood, WI

Built 2004 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 265

LRD LINCOLN RD

Good

Over: HEMLOCK CREEK

2.7M W JCT STH 80/73, Wood, WI

Built 2006 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 287

LRD LINCOLN RD

Good

Over: LITTLE HEMLOCK CREEK

3.8M E JCT STH 80, Wood, WI

Built 2005 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 378

LRD WASHINGTON AVE

Good

Over: USH 10

1.0 MI EAST JCT STH 13, Wood, WI

Built 2010 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 1,800

STH 13S - CTH A

Good

Over: USH 10

AT CTH A, Wood, WI

Built 2011 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 10,700

LRD LYNN LINE RD

Good

Over: BR E FK BLACK RIVER

1.9M W JCT CTH V, Wood, WI

Built 2023 Load: 36.0 t ADT: 100

CTH V

Good

Over: ROCKY RUN FLOW

4.2M N STH 73, Wood, WI

Built 2014 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 450

CTH B

Good

Over: BR YELLOW RIVER

0.1M S JCT USH 10, Wood, WI

Built 2016 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 550

CTH V

Good

Over: ROCKY RUN FLOW

3.8M N JCT STH 73, Wood, WI

Built 2020 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 350

LRD BOWER ST

Good

Over: CAT CREEK

0.1M W JCT STH 80, Wood, WI

Built 1992 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 100

LRD YETTER RD

Good

Over: ROCKY RUN

0.8M W JCT CTH B, Wood, WI

Built 1992 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 40

LRD LUNDBERG RD

Good

Over: MOCCASIN CREEK

0.8M N JCT CTH F, Wood, WI

Built 1994 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 50

LRD TOWN RD WRED R

Good

Over: E BR YELLOW RIVER

0.3M N JCT CTH Y, Wood, WI

Built 1993 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 80

STH 13 NB

Good

Over: LRD PEACH AVE

0.45M S JCT STH 97, Wood, WI

Built 2003 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 10,300

STH 80

Good

Over: YELLOW RIVER

1.1M N JCT CTH N TO W, Wood, WI

Built 2000 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 2,700

CTH Z

Good

Over: TEN MILE CREEK

3.3M S JCT STH 73, Wood, WI

Built 2004 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 1,600

STH 186-CAMERON AV

Good

Over: HEMLOCK CREEK

2.9M N JCT STH 13, Wood, WI

Built 2004 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 2,000

LRD WASHINGTON AVE

Good

Over: BR BEAVER CREEK

1.4M S JCT USH 10, Wood, WI

Built 2003 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 378

LRD 48TH ST

Good

Over: BUENA VISTA CREEK

0.8M S JCT CTH W, Wood, WI

Built 2005 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 3,800

CTH B

Good

Over: ROCKY CREEK

0.9M S JCT CTH N, Wood, WI

Built 2006 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 370

USH 10

Good

Over: YELLOW RIVER

0.1M E JCT CTH B TO S, Wood, WI

Built 2008 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 3,500

CTH Q

Good

Over: ELM CREEK

1.3M E JCT CTH D, Wood, WI

Built 2010 Load: 37.3 t ADT: 1,230

CTH K

Good

Over: MILL CREEK

2.3M N XING OF E, Wood, WI

Built 2009 Load: 37.9 t ADT: 680

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