Blum Lane over Dougherty Slough

Tillamook County, Oregon · rated Poor in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

United States Bridge Conditions2025 National Bridge Inventory, FHWACompiled August 20, 2026

• Blum Lane over Dougherty Slough in Tillamook County, Oregon, is rated in poor condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
• Its lowest-rated component is the superstructure, rated 4 (poor condition) on the 0-9 scale.
• It was built in 1989, making it 36 years old at the 2025 inventory.
• It carries about 15 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2020).
• Its listed owner is the county highway agency.
• It is one of 15 of the 228 inventoried bridges in Tillamook County rated poor (6.6%); 15 (6.6%) are rated poor.
• Its traffic status in the 2025 inventory is posted for load (NBI item 41).
• Its class is unchanged from 2024 (poor), but component ratings moved: deck 7 to 6, substructure 6 to 5.
• Its most recent inspection on record is dated June 2024, on a 12-month routine inspection cycle.
• It is coded scour critical (NBI item 113 = 3): scour critical: foundations unstable for the assessed or calculated scour.
• It has fracture-critical members (NBI item 92A): steel tension members without a redundant load path, which get their own scheduled inspections.
• A poor rating means at least one major component - deck, superstructure, or substructure - is rated 4 or lower on FHWA's 0-9 scale. It does not by itself mean the bridge is unsafe; bridges judged unsafe are closed or load-restricted by their owners.

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Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2025 data as reported by the Oregon department of transportation.

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