Total bridges
13
Public highway bridges in Aguas Buenas County
County profile · official public datasets
Aguas Buenas County, PR
13 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 15.4% rated Good, 84.6% Fair, 0% Poor.
- 13
- Public bridges
- 15.4%
- Good condition
- 0%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Aguas Buenas County pairs a top-10% lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 8%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 0%
- Poor-condition share
- 13
- public highway bridges
- 1966
- 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.
Aguas Buenas County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Aguas Buenas County ranks #6 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 0%). Aguas Buenas County, Puerto Rico contains 13 public highway bridges. Roughly 15.4% are rated “Good,” 84.6% “Fair,” and 0% “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
15.4%
2 of 13 rated 7-9
Fair condition
84.6%
11 of 13 rated 5-6
Poor condition
0%
0 of 13 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#6 of 74
Among Puerto Rico counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 13 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 15.4% (2)
Fair 84.6% (11)
Poor 0% (0)
61.5% of Aguas Buenas County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
8 of the 13 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 15.4% 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.
When Aguas Buenas County's bridges were built
13 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1920s
1920–1929
3 bridges
- 1950s 1
1950–1959
1 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
3 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
2 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
2 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1920s, when 3 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.1% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 95 to 104 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1966, 8 years older than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.
How Aguas Buenas County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Aguas Buenas County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 0% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1966 against a peer-group mean of 1966 is in line with the group.
Showing the 5 closest of 73 Puerto Rico counties eligible for comparison.
| County | Bridges | Good | Fair | Poor | Avg. built |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aguadilla County | 13 | 15.4% | 53.8% | 30.8% | 1963 |
| Arroyo County | 13 | 23.1% | 61.5% | 15.4% | 1988 |
| Las Marías County | 13 | 15.4% | 76.9% | 7.7% | 1959 |
| Maricao County | 13 | 7.7% | 69.2% | 23.1% | 1952 |
| Moca County | 13 | 15.4% | 61.5% | 23.1% | 1969 |
| Aguas Buenas County (this page) | 13 | 15.4% | 84.6% | 0% | 1966 |
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 Aguas Buenas 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 Aguas Buenas County, both outside Puerto Rico so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.
Similar inventory size
Nearest county inventories outside PR (13 bridges here).
- Bethel County, AK · 13 bridges
- San Juan County, CO · 13 bridges
- Perkins County, NE · 13 bridges
- Wheeler County, NE · 13 bridges
Similar average build year
Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1966 here).
- Butler County, KS · avg 1966 · 591 bridges
- Grafton County, NH · avg 1966 · 544 bridges
- Queens County, NY · avg 1966 · 514 bridges
- Lehigh County, PA · avg 1966 · 381 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Good-condition bridges (2)
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Every figure on PlainBridges is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. NBI condition categories reflect the latest reported inventory record, not a live safety, closure, or travel decision.