Total bridges
33
Public highway bridges in Adjuntas County
County profile · official public datasets
Adjuntas County, PR
33 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 9.1% rated Good, 75.8% Fair, 15.2% Poor.
- 33
- Public bridges
- 9.1%
- Good condition
- 15.2%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Adjuntas County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 39th
- of 74 on Poor share
- 15.2%
- Poor-condition share
- 33
- public highway bridges
- 1960
- 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.
Adjuntas County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Adjuntas County ranks #39 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 15.2%). Adjuntas County, Puerto Rico contains 33 public highway bridges. Roughly 9.1% are rated “Good,” 75.8% “Fair,” and 15.2% “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.
Good condition
9.1%
3 of 33 rated 7-9
Fair condition
75.8%
25 of 33 rated 5-6
Poor condition
15.2%
5 of 33 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#39 of 74
Among Puerto Rico counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 33 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 9.1% (3)
Fair 75.8% (25)
Poor 15.2% (5)
Adjuntas County's Poor-condition bridges carry 11,050 vehicle crossings a day
That is 14.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 15.2% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 2,210 crossings a day against 5,833 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 33 of 33 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
63.6% of Adjuntas County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
21 of the 33 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 9.1% 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 65.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
PR 5516 over WATERWAY, built 1990, carries 7,200 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 5-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 11,050 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Adjuntas County's bridges were built
33 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s
1900–1909
3 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1920s 2
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 2
1930–1939
2 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
7 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
4 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
4 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
3 bridges
- 1990s 2
1990–1999
2 bridges
- 2000s 2
2000–2009
2 bridges
- 2010s
2010–2019
3 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1940s, when 7 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.2% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 75 to 84 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1960, 14 years older than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.
How Adjuntas County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Adjuntas County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 15.2% Poor share is the 2nd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1960 against a peer-group mean of 1971 is 11 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 73 Puerto Rico counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guayanilla County | 34 | 5.9% | 73.5% | 20.6% | 1974 |
| Jayuya County | 34 | 5.9% | 76.5% | 17.6% | 1964 |
| Adjuntas County (this page) | 33 | 9.1% | 75.8% | 15.2% | 1960 |
| Patillas County | 32 | 21.9% | 59.4% | 18.8% | 1970 |
| San Sebastián County | 31 | 16.1% | 74.2% | 9.7% | 1966 |
| Canóvanas County | 30 | 36.7% | 46.7% | 16.7% | 1979 |
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 Adjuntas 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 Adjuntas County, both outside Puerto Rico so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside PR (33 bridges here).
- Lee County, GA · 33 bridges
- Greeley County, KS · 33 bridges
- Calvert County, MD · 33 bridges
- Grand Traverse County, MI · 33 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1960 here).
- Windham County, VT · avg 1960 · 337 bridges
- Plymouth County, MA · avg 1960 · 287 bridges
- Cheshire County, NH · avg 1960 · 192 bridges
- Washington County, NY · avg 1960 · 189 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (5)
PR 524
PoorOver: PELLEJAS RIVER
4.8 KM NORTH OF ADJUNTAS, Adjuntas, PR
Built 1937 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 600
OFF PR 123 AT 46.2
PoorOver: GRANDE DE ARECIBO RIVER
6 KM SOUTH OF UTUADO, Adjuntas, PR
Built 1967 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 250
PR 522
PoorOver: VACAS RIVER
1 MILE WEST OF ADJUNTAS, Adjuntas, PR
Built 1938 Load: 19.3 t ADT: 800
PR 5516
PoorOver: WATERWAY
0.6 KM NORTH OF ADJUNTAS, Adjuntas, PR
Built 1990 Load: 22.5 t ADT: 7,200
PR 518
PoorOver: SALTILLO RIVER
0.5 KM S E OF ADJUNTAS, Adjuntas, PR
Built 1961 Load: 24.4 t ADT: 2,200
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