State profile · Below median Poor share

Kansas bridge safety

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, condition ratings, load ratings, and Poor-condition shares for every public highway bridge in Kansas.

24,894
Public bridges
52.5%
Good condition
5.3%
Poor condition

Kansas holds 24,894 public highway bridges (#5 of 52 by inventory) with a 5.26% Poor share (#31 of 52 by Poor share).

That is 5.3% of the state's inventory, against an average of 7.5% across the 54 states and territories with Poor-rated bridges on file, which places it 22 of 54 ordered from the lowest Poor share upward. A bridge is rated Poor when its weakest applicable component scores 4 or below on the inspecting agency's 0-9 scale, so the category is a maintenance and funding signal rather than a closure order or a live crossing-safety verdict.

Inventory: FHWA NBI 2024 · last ETL August 2026

Total Bridges

24,894

Public highway bridges in Kansas

Good Condition

52.5%

13,060 bridges rated 7-9

2.5pp vs 50% benchmark

Poor Condition

5.3%

1,310 bridges whose lowest applicable component is rated 0-4

-2.3pp vs national avg 7.5%

Kansas vs national bridge condition

Kansas - Good condition share 52.5%
National avg

Share of bridges rated 7-9 on the FHWA 0-9 scale (deck, superstructure, substructure all good).

Kansas - Poor-condition share 17.5%
National avg

Lower is better. Bar maxes at 30% (worst-state ceiling). National average sits at 7.5%.

Kansas in the national condition pattern

Each point is a state or territory in the FHWA NBI; the highlighted point is this profile.

Inventory size and Poor-condition share are different measures: Kansas has 24,894 bridges and a 5.3% Poor-condition share in the 2024 NBI, rank #22 of 54 jurisdictions ordered from the lowest share upward. The dashed comparisons mark the national average state rate and the midpoint of the plotted inventory range; neither is a live safety or closure threshold. Scatter plot of 54 data points. 0%10%20%30%40% 0k20k40k60k Public bridges in inventory (thousands) Poor-condition share (%) KS, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 24.9k · Poor-condition share (%): 5.26%AL, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 16.2k · Poor-condition share (%): 3.35%AK, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 1.7k · Poor-condition share (%): 7.89%AZ, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 8.6k · Poor-condition share (%): 1.15%AR, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 13k · Poor-condition share (%): 5.43%CA, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 25.8k · Poor-condition share (%): 5.91%CO, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 9k · Poor-condition share (%): 4.82%CT, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 4.4k · Poor-condition share (%): 4.72%DE, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 0.9k · Poor-condition share (%): 1.26%DC, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 0.3k · Poor-condition share (%): 1.95%FL, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 13k · Poor-condition share (%): 2.79%GA, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 15.1k · Poor-condition share (%): 1.59%GU, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 0k · Poor-condition share (%): 12.77%HI, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 1.2k · Poor-condition share (%): 6.53%ID, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 4.6k · Poor-condition share (%): 4.9%IL, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 26.9k · Poor-condition share (%): 9.35%IN, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 19.5k · Poor-condition share (%): 5.22%IA, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 23.7k · Poor-condition share (%): 19.16%KY, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 14.5k · Poor-condition share (%): 7.37%LA, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 12.7k · Poor-condition share (%): 11.48%ME, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 2.5k · Poor-condition share (%): 15.41%MD, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 5.5k · Poor-condition share (%): 4.56%MA, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 5.3k · Poor-condition share (%): 8.88%MI, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 11.4k · Poor-condition share (%): 11.27%MN, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 13.5k · Poor-condition share (%): 4.44%MS, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 16.7k · Poor-condition share (%): 6.03%MO, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 24.6k · Poor-condition share (%): 8.95%MT, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 5.2k · Poor-condition share (%): 6.81%NE, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 15.4k · Poor-condition share (%): 7.9%NV, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 2.1k · Poor-condition share (%): 1.14%NH, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 2.5k · Poor-condition share (%): 7.51%NJ, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 6.8k · Poor-condition share (%): 6.01%NM, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 4k · Poor-condition share (%): 4.51%NY, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 17.6k · Poor-condition share (%): 9.43%NC, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 19.2k · Poor-condition share (%): 6.76%ND, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 4.3k · Poor-condition share (%): 10.98%OH, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 26.7k · Poor-condition share (%): 4.74%OK, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 22.9k · Poor-condition share (%): 7.7%OR, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 8.3k · Poor-condition share (%): 4.61%PA, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 23.3k · Poor-condition share (%): 12.58%PR, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 2.4k · Poor-condition share (%): 13.92%RI, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 0.8k · Poor-condition share (%): 15.2%SC, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 9.5k · Poor-condition share (%): 6.17%SD, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 5.9k · Poor-condition share (%): 16.36%TN, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 20.4k · Poor-condition share (%): 4.41%TX, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 56.7k · Poor-condition share (%): 1.23%UT, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 3.1k · Poor-condition share (%): 2.91%VT, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 2.9k · Poor-condition share (%): 2.9%VI, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 0k · Poor-condition share (%): 29.17%VA, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 14.1k · Poor-condition share (%): 3.39%WA, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 8.5k · Poor-condition share (%): 5.45%WV, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 7.3k · Poor-condition share (%): 18.64%WI, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 14.4k · Poor-condition share (%): 6.52%WY, Public bridges in inventory (thousands): 3.1k · Poor-condition share (%): 6.51%
Inventory size and Poor-condition share are different measures: Kansas has 24,894 bridges and a 5.3% Poor-condition share in the 2024 NBI, rank #22 of 54 jurisdictions ordered from the lowest share upward. The dashed comparisons mark the national average state rate and the midpoint of the plotted inventory range; neither is a live safety or closure threshold.

Kansas vs all states by public bridge inventory

Where this state's FHWA NBI public-highway bridge count sits among every state and territory on PlainBridges

24,894 5th of 54 higher than 49 of 54 states

States and territories, banded by public bridge inventory size

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory · 2024

Read the rank neighborhood for Kansas

The highlighted point is Kansas: 24,894 bridges and 5.26% in Poor condition, rank #22 of 54 jurisdictions ordered from the lowest share upward. The five jurisdictions immediately above and below Kansas on that same Poor-share ordering:

  • Idaho: 4,616 bridges · 4.90% Poor
  • Indiana: 19,495 bridges · 5.22% Poor
  • Kansas: 24,894 bridges · 5.26% Poor
  • Arkansas: 12,974 bridges · 5.43% Poor
  • Washington: 8,474 bridges · 5.45% Poor

The full national sortable table lives on the rankings page.

Material families in Kansas

Exclusive FHWA material families across all 24,894 bridges in this state; continuous variants fold into the parent family. Orthogonal to the Poor-share scatter above.

Who maintains Kansas’s inventory

State agency holds 22.2% of the 24,894 public highway bridges filed under Kansas in the 2024 NBI, the agency-of-record split for this state, not a condition verdict.

When Kansas’s bridges were built

Pre-1950 construction accounts for 21.5% of the 24,894 bridges with a recorded original year in Kansas. Era bands are orthogonal to the Poor-share ranking above.

Condition Distribution

Kansas52.5%42.3%GoodFairPoor
Bridge inventory deck-condition mix - Kansas (FHWA NBI)

Counties (105)

Allen 227 Anderson 144 Atchison 197 Barber 241 Barton 449 Bourbon 206 Brown 256 Butler 591 Chase 189 Chautauqua 130 Cherokee 317 Cheyenne 100 Clark 102 Clay 231 Cloud 314 Coffey 305 Comanche 110 Cowley 337 Crawford 297 Decatur 159 Dickinson 375 Doniphan 129 Douglas 314 Edwards 69 Elk 154 Ellis 275 Ellsworth 259 Finney 78 Ford 223 Franklin 332 Geary 140 Gove 109 Graham 142 Grant 16 Gray 66 Greeley 33 Greenwood 235 Hamilton 68 Harper 372 Harvey 372 Haskell 18 Hodgeman 109 Jackson 246 Jefferson 194 Jewell 307 Johnson 781 Kearny 72 Kingman 391 Kiowa 90 Labette 349 Lane 25 Leavenworth 241 Lincoln 225 Linn 257 Logan 55 Lyon 492 Marion 324 Marshall 402 McPherson 586 Meade 84 Miami 326 Mitchell 260 Montgomery 326 Morris 179 Morton 17 Nemaha 359 Neosho 241 Ness 167 Norton 244 Osage 304 Osborne 244 Ottawa 295 Pawnee 164 Phillips 249 Pottawatomie 303 Pratt 118 Rawlins 103 Reno 573 Republic 266 Rice 262 Riley 224 Rooks 169 Rush 170 Russell 261 Saline 369 Scott 22 Sedgwick 1333 Seward 14 Shawnee 563 Sheridan 116 Sherman 105 Smith 281 Stafford 119 Stanton 21 Stevens 3 Sumner 659 Thomas 82 Trego 166 Wabaunsee 242 Wallace 44 Washington 335 Wichita 22 Wilson 205 Woodson 143 Wyandotte 315

Kansas vs nearby ranks

Adjacent states by Poor-condition share (lower share = better)

States are ranked by the share of bridges whose lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below. This describes recorded condition; it does not measure funding effectiveness or live crossing safety. States here sit immediately above and below Kansas on the same metric.

ID

Idaho

4.90% top marginal rate
Structure
Progressive
Burden @ $100K
$4,616

IN

Indiana

5.22% top marginal rate
Structure
Progressive
Burden @ $100K
$19,495
Selected

KS

Kansas

5.26% top marginal rate
Structure
Progressive
Burden @ $100K
$24,894

AR

Arkansas

5.43% top marginal rate
Structure
Progressive
Burden @ $100K
$12,974

WA

Washington

5.45% top marginal rate
Structure
Progressive
Burden @ $100K
$8,474

Bridges Needing Most Attention in Kansas

Six lowest-condition bridges in Kansas, ranked by the portal's composite display score. Inspection intervals are risk-based under current NBIS rules.

RS 302 NW 50TH AVE

Poor

Over: STREAM

1.5N OF CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Harper, KS

Built 1940 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 80

37 ROAD

Poor

Over: TRIBUTARY BEAVER CREEK

2.6S 2.3E OF HERNDON, Rawlins, KS

Built 1963 Load: 0.6 t ADT: 15

LOCAL MEDF230

Poor

Over: PEACE CREEK

2.0N 8.2W OF NICKERSON, Reno, KS

Built 1950 Load: 1.3 t ADT: 25

LOCAL G-2.5

Poor

Over: EAST OAK CREEK

4.0N 1.5E OF DISPATCH, Jewell, KS

Built 1935 Load: 1.8 t ADT: 1

LOCAL Y-12.5

Poor

Over: TRIB. TO WHITE ROCK CK.

3.0N 1.5E OF BURR OAK, Jewell, KS

Built 1932 Load: 1.8 t ADT: 20

28TH RD (27.0-A.5)

Poor

Over: TRIB. TO POLE CREEK

3.0E OF SUMMERFIELD, Marshall, KS

Built 1940 Load: 1.8 t ADT: 10

All Bridges in Kansas

K-146 HWY

Good

Over: BIG WALNUT CREEK DRG

5.23 MI E NEOSHO COLN, Crawford, KS

Built 1994 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 390

K-148 HWY

Good

Over: PARSONS CREEK DRAINAGE

6.34 MI E OF RP/WS COLN, Washington, KS

Built 1993 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 495

US160 HWY

Good

Over: MEDICINE RIVER DRAINAGE

6.45 MI W WJCT US281, Barber, KS

Built 1941 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 660

US-160 HIGHWAY

Good

Over: WILDCAT CREEK DRAINAGE

11.29 MI E COWLEY COLN, Elk, KS

Built 1999 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 780

US-166 HWY

Good

Over: GROUSE CREEK DRAINAGE

12.59 MI E US-77, Cowley, KS

Built 1998 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 1,310

US-166 HWY

Good

Over: LITTLE CRABB CREEK

0.14 MI E WJCT K-15, Cowley, KS

Built 1998 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 2,090

US169 HWY

Good

Over: POTTAWATOMIE CREEK DRG

0.59 MI NE ANDERSON COLN, Franklin, KS

Built 1934 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 3,192

US-169 HWY

Good

Over: ROCK CREEK

0.04 MI E MONTGOMERY COLN, Labette, KS

Built 1995 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 3,500

US283 HWY

Good

Over: CEDAR BLUFF RES DRG

12.39 MI N NESS CO LINE, Trego, KS

Built 2004 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 1,520

K-284 HWY

Good

Over: RATTLESNAKE CR. DRAINAGE

5.34 MI E OF K-14/K-284, Lincoln, KS

Built 1999 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 165

K-383 HIGHWAY

Good

Over: PRAIRIE DOG CREEK

9.51 MI NE NORTON COLN, Phillips, KS

Built 2001 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 1,600

US-400 HWY

Good

Over: LIGHTENING CREEK DRN

0.04 MI E LABETTE COLN, Cherokee, KS

Built 1994 Load: 48.1 t ADT: 5,600

RS 334 BSN 110

Good

Over: TRIB. TO WHITE ROCK CK.

1.4E OF BURR OAK, Jewell, KS

Built 1966 Load: 48.2 t ADT: 110

RS 303 SE 100 AVE

Good

Over: S. FORK NINNESCAH RIVER

1.5S OF MURDOCK, Kingman, KS

Built 1958 Load: 48.2 t ADT: 215

CR 180

Good

Over: OLD MAID FORK

1.3S OF NEKOMA, Rush, KS

Built 2004 Load: 48.2 t ADT: 125

MINOR 16.5-12.3

Good

Over: B.N.S.F. RAILWAY

1.0W OF OTTAWA, Franklin, KS

Built 2015 Load: 48.2 t ADT: 240

LONGHORN RD

Good

Over: HACKBERRY CREEK

10.5S 1.0E OF DIGHTON, Lane, KS

Built 1989 Load: 48.2 t ADT: 30

J.2-22 LOCAL

Good

Over: CREEK

2.0N OF CULVER, Ottawa, KS

Built 1925 Load: 48.2 t ADT: 20

RS 28

Good

Over: DEER CREEK

3.0N OF ATCHISON, Atchison, KS

Built 2003 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 311

S Ridge Rd RS 304

Good

Over: EAST EMMA CREEK

3.0W 1.9S OF NEWTON, Harvey, KS

Built 2008 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 1,004

199TH ST

Good

Over: BAIN CREEK

0.24 MI W OF HEDGE LANE, Johnson, KS

Built 2015 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 2,400

QUAIL RD (RS 127)

Good

Over: TURKEY CREEK

5.0S 2.0W OF MCALLASTER, Logan, KS

Built 1983 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 60

RS 1692 MN-2

Good

Over: TRIB.SB.BLACK VERMILLION

2.0S OF CENTRALIA, Nemaha, KS

Built 1999 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 385

RS 831 J.4-9.0F

Good

Over: WALNUT CREEK

0.3N 1.3W OF RANDOLPH, Riley, KS

Built 2007 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 552

RS 1805 53rd N

Good

Over: COWSKIN CREEK

53rdN 0.6 E of 247thW, Sedgwick, KS

Built 2020 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 2,125

1000 ROAD

Good

Over: TRIB. N FORK PRAIRIE DOG

1.1N 7.1W OF DRESDEN, Decatur, KS

Built 2012 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 20

MINOR E 1250 Rd

Good

Over: Pleasant Grove Tributary

Just S of N 900 Rd, Douglas, KS

Built 2013 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 986

215TH ST

Good

Over: TENMILE CREEK TRIB.

3.7 MI W OF US 69 HWY, Johnson, KS

Built 2010 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 50

6600 RD Mile 6

Good

Over: ELM BRANCH

6.5N 2.4E OF ELK CITY, Montgomery, KS

Built 2012 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 30

LOCAL 2 D.5-2600

Good

Over: MULBERRY CREEK

3.8W 1.5N OF WHITE CITY, Morris, KS

Built 2006 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 45

M-2.9 MINOR

Good

Over: STREAM (DRY)

0.1N 3.0E OF DELPHOS, Ottawa, KS

Built 2022 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 60

E. 500 RD. (156)

Good

Over: DEER CREEK

2.0S 5.0E OF PHILLIPSBURG, Phillips, KS

Built 2019 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 15

69th Ave

Good

Over: COW CREEK

0.5W 2.0N WILLOW BROOK, Reno, KS

Built 2023 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 35

B-12.5 61

Good

Over: SOUTH FORK MILL CREEK

1.4S 2.5W OF HADDAM, Washington, KS

Built 2014 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 25

LINCOLN AVE. BR. 8

Good

Over: HARGIS CREEK

1310 FT. E OF RT 5807, Sumner, KS

Built 1989 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 2,500

FARLEY LANE

Good

Over: DRAINAGE DITCH

550FT NORTH OF W 53RD ST, Johnson, KS

Built 2014 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 250

EISENHOWER AP PKWY

Good

Over: CROSSFIELD ROAD

EISNHWR AP PKWY@CROSSFLD, Sedgwick, KS

Built 1980 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 8,810

K-7 HWY

Good

Over: BRUSH CREEK DRAINAGE

0.10 MI N OF U-160, Cherokee, KS

Built 2016 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 4,550

MICHIGAN STREET

Good

Over: K10 HWY

0.54 MI E OF US-59 JCT, Douglas, KS

Built 2014 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 1,958

K-15 HWY

Good

Over: ASH CREEK

4.80 MI N K9, Washington, KS

Built 2023 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 2,175

US36 HWY

Good

Over: SAPPA CREEK DRAINAGE

3.96 MI E JT U83, Decatur, KS

Built 2015 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 1,040

US36 HWY

Good

Over: SAPPA CREEK DRAINAGE

6.77 MI E JT U83, Decatur, KS

Built 2015 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 1,040

K-29 HWY

Good

Over: Pawnee Creek

7.43 MI E JCT K 3, Bourbon, KS

Built 2023 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 995

K-42 HWY

Good

Over: CHIKASKIA RIVER DRG

7.62 MI W K14, Kingman, KS

Built 2023 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 405

US50 HWY

Good

Over: SYRACUSE CREEK

0.86 MI W K27 WJCT, Hamilton, KS

Built 2018 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 2,710

US50 HWY

Good

Over: EAST BRIDGE CREEK

7.49 MI E COLO STATE LN, Hamilton, KS

Built 2019 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 2,420

US54/US400 HWY WB

Good

Over: HYDRAULIC AVE

KELLOGG & HYDRAULIC AVE, Sedgwick, KS

Built 1976 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 51,000

US-69 HWY SB

Good

Over: K-7 & BNSF RR

6.57 MI N CRAWFORD COLN, Bourbon, KS

Built 1998 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 3,150

K-156 HIGHWAY

Good

Over: RS-238; UP RR

1.01 MI NE K-14 HIGHWAY, Ellsworth, KS

Built 2002 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 3,790

US-166 HWY

Good

Over: NEOSHO RIVER DRAINAGE

.25 MI E LABETTE COLN, Cherokee, KS

Built 2022 Load: 48.3 t ADT: 1,910

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Data sourced from the FHWA National Bridge Inventory (NBI), latest released cycle. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainBridges.

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Understanding Bridge Conditions

How FHWA rates bridge condition on a 0-9 scale.

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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Kansas Good/Fair/Poor shares and county rollups on this page are computed from the same NBI extract as the national boards; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2024 NBI release. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.