Pavement Capital IQ
Blue Earth County — every county road, colored by its condition. Press Walk through 20 years to watch roads wear down and get repaired, one year at a time.
Road condition score (0–200)
Excellent
Good
Fair
Worn
Poor
Failed
Brighter halo = needs repair now (below the county's minimum acceptable condition)
2021starting point · 2021 survey
Average road condition 119.5
Roads needing repair 15.3% of road miles
Checked against real surveysPlanning estimate
How this works

Every road's future condition is predicted from the county's own road surveys — six of them, taken between 2005 and 2021. We tested those predictions by forecasting years the county had already surveyed, then measuring how close we came. That measured miss is the "give or take" shown with every number.

Repairs restore condition by amounts taken from the county's own cost and design figures — how long a resurfacing or rebuild is expected to last. Those are engineering assumptions, worth an engineer's eye.

For the technically minded: the forecast is an age-based deterioration curve fit per pavement type to the county's rating history, checked by recursive back-testing against held-out later surveys. Beyond an 8-year look-ahead there is no survey left to check against, so the error is held at its 8-year value and the timeline is marked. The animation shows each year as wear-then-repair for clarity; the model applies repairs first, then a year of wear — each year ends on the identical condition either way.