Total bridges
19
Public highway bridges in Aguada County
County profile · official public datasets
Aguada County, PR
19 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 15.8% rated Good, 73.7% Fair, 10.5% Poor.
- 19
- Public bridges
- 15.8%
- Good condition
- 10.5%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Aguada County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 28%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 10.5%
- Poor-condition share
- 19
- public highway bridges
- 1967
- 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.
Aguada County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Aguada County ranks #21 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 10.5%). Aguada County, Puerto Rico contains 19 public highway bridges. Roughly 15.8% are rated “Good,” 73.7% “Fair,” and 10.5% “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
15.8%
3 of 19 rated 7-9
Fair condition
73.7%
14 of 19 rated 5-6
Poor condition
10.5%
2 of 19 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#21 of 74
Among Puerto Rico counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 19 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 15.8% (3)
Fair 73.7% (14)
Poor 10.5% (2)
Aguada County's Poor-condition bridges carry 35,450 vehicle crossings a day
That is 22.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10.5% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 17,725 crossings a day against 7,300 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 19 of 19 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
57.9% of Aguada County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
11 of the 19 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 15.8% 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 99.3% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
OFF PR 2 KM 137.25 over RIO CANAS, built 1901, carries 35,200 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 2-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 35,450 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Aguada County's bridges were built
19 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1910s 1
1910–1919
1 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
4 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
2 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
2 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
3 bridges
- 1980s 1
1980–1989
1 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
4 bridges
- 2010s 1
2010–2019
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1940s, when 4 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 21.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 75 to 84 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1967, 7 years older than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.
How Aguada County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Aguada County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 10.5% Poor share is the 4th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1967 against a peer-group mean of 1972 is 5 years older.
Showing the 5 closest of 73 Puerto Rico counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorado County | 20 | 30% | 70% | 0% | 1982 |
| Fajardo County | 20 | 30% | 60% | 10% | 1978 |
| Luquillo County | 20 | 0% | 85% | 15% | 1960 |
| Gurabo County | 19 | 21.1% | 78.9% | 0% | 1978 |
| Orocovis County | 19 | 26.3% | 52.6% | 21.1% | 1964 |
| Aguada County (this page) | 19 | 15.8% | 73.7% | 10.5% | 1967 |
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 Aguada 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 Aguada County, both outside Puerto Rico so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside PR (19 bridges here).
- Gilpin County, CO · 19 bridges
- Blaine County, NE · 19 bridges
- Thomas County, NE · 19 bridges
- Foster County, ND · 19 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1967 here).
- Los Angeles County, CA · avg 1967 · 3,547 bridges
- Allegheny County, PA · avg 1967 · 1,294 bridges
- Sonoma County, CA · avg 1967 · 609 bridges
- Merced County, CA · avg 1967 · 528 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
All bridges (19)
OFF PR-115
FairOver: UNNAMED CREEK
1 KM. SW. OF AGUADA., Aguada, PR
Built 2009 Load: 12.1 t ADT: 100
PR 417
FairOver: CA¥AS RIVER
4.5 KM S E OF AGUADA, Aguada, PR
Built 1949 Load: 12.9 t ADT: 8,100
OFF PR 411
FairOver: INGENIO RIVER
0.6 KM OF PR411 AT KM 5.6, Aguada, PR
Built 1949 Load: 13.6 t ADT: 500
PR 115
FairOver: GRANDE RIVER
3.5 KM NORTH OF RINCON, Aguada, PR
Built 1915 Load: 16.9 t ADT: 7,200
OFF PR 411
FairOver: INGENIO RIVER
3 KM SOUTH WEST OF AGUADA, Aguada, PR
Built 1950 Load: 17.1 t ADT: 100
PR 411
FairOver: INGENIO RIVER
4.2 KM SOUTH OF AGUADA, Aguada, PR
Built 1945 Load: 17.8 t ADT: 2,100
PR 115
FairOver: CULEBRINAS RIVER
4 KM S W OF AGUADILLA, Aguada, PR
Built 1951 Load: 21.6 t ADT: 13,400
PR 4417
FairOver: MAMEY CREEK
5 KM EAST OF AGUADA, Aguada, PR
Built 1970 Load: 31.4 t ADT: 4,000
DESVIO SUR ST.
FairOver: UNNAME CREEK
10KMS.SOUTH AGUADA, Aguada, PR
Built 2000 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 1,500
PR-115
FairOver: GUAYABO RIVER
2.41 KMS. NW. OF AGUADA, Aguada, PR
Built 2009 Load: 34.4 t ADT: 13,800
PR 416
FairOver: CULEBRA RIVER
3 KMS. OF AGUADA, Aguada, PR
Built 1960 Load: 34.7 t ADT: 6,500
PR 4411
FairOver: CULEBRAS RIVER
2 KM. SOUTH OF AGUADA, Aguada, PR
Built 1989 Load: 36.9 t ADT: 500
PR 2
FairOver: DIRT ROAD
4 KM W S W OF MOCA, Aguada, PR
Built 1962 Load: 39.9 t ADT: 35,900
PR 411
FairOver: CULEBRAS RIVER
1.2 SOUTH OF AGUADA, Aguada, PR
Built 2001 Load: 49.0 t ADT: 8,800
PR 115
GoodOver: SANTI PONCE RIVER
3 KM WEST OF AGUADA, Aguada, PR
Built 1978 Load: 33.6 t ADT: 7,200
PR 414
GoodOver: GRANDE RIVER
3.8 KM N E OF RINCON, Aguada, PR
Built 1945 Load: 52.6 t ADT: 3,500
COLISEUM STREET
GoodOver: CULEBRA RIVER KM 0.31
OFF NATIVO ALERS AVE KM01, Aguada, PR
Built 2015 Load: 70.0 t ADT: 11,200
OFF PR 2 KM 137.25
PoorOver: RIO CANAS
Off PR 2 at 137.2 km, Aguada, PR
Built 1901 Load: 15.6 t ADT: 35,200
OFF PR 2 KM 137.8
PoorOver: CANAS RIVER
100 MTS OFF PR 2, Aguada, PR
Built 1977 Load: 46.8 t ADT: 250
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