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Ceiba County, PR

29 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 13.8% rated Good, 72.4% Fair, 13.8% Poor.

29
Public bridges: 13.8%
Good condition: 13.8%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Ceiba County posts a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 46%
lowest Poor share in state: 13.8%
Poor-condition share: 29
public highway bridges: 1975
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.

Ceiba County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Ceiba County ranks #34 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 13.8%). Ceiba County, Puerto Rico contains 29 public highway bridges. Roughly 13.8% are rated “Good,” 72.4% “Fair,” and 13.8% “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.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Ceiba County

Good condition

13.8%

4 of 29 rated 7-9

Fair condition

72.4%

21 of 29 rated 5-6

Poor condition

13.8%

4 of 29 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#34 of 74

Among Puerto Rico counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 29 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

13.8% (4)

Fair

72.4% (21)

Poor

13.8% (4)

Ceiba County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,000 vehicle crossings a day

That is 5.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 13.8% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,250 crossings a day against 13,875 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 29 of 29 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

37.9% of Ceiba County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

11 of the 29 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 13.8% 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 37.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

PR 3 over CEIBA CREEK, built 1918, carries 4,900 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 4-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 13,000 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

2
1920s

2
1950s

3
1960s

3
1970s

2
1980s

2
1990s

15

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 15 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 51.7% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1975) matches the Puerto Rico average (1974).

How Ceiba County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Ceiba County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 13.8% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1975 against a peer-group mean of 1970 is 5 years newer.

Showing the 5 closest of 73 Puerto Rico counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Ceiba County and the 5 Puerto Rico counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Canóvanas County	30	36.7%	46.7%	16.7%	1979
Coamo County	30	10%	73.3%	16.7%	1970
Guayama County	29	13.8%	72.4%	13.8%	1976
Ceiba County (this page)	29	13.8%	72.4%	13.8%	1975
Corozal County	28	21.4%	75%	3.6%	1959
Juncos County	28	3.6%	75%	21.4%	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 Ceiba 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 Ceiba County, both outside Puerto Rico so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside PR (29 bridges here).

Garden County, NE · 29 bridges
Burke County, ND · 29 bridges
Jim Hogg County, TX · 29 bridges
Sherman County, TX · 29 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1975 here).

San Bernardino County, CA · avg 1975 · 1,422 bridges
Lane County, OR · avg 1975 · 1,010 bridges
Fulton County, GA · avg 1975 · 775 bridges
Westmoreland County, PA · avg 1975 · 620 bridges

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 29 Good 4 Fair 21 Poor 4

All bridges (29)

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Ceiba County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Ceiba County's Poor-condition bridges carry 13,000 vehicle crossings a day

37.9% of Ceiba County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 37.7% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Ceiba County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (29)

LOCAL ROAD

PR 976

LOCAL ROAD

PR 53

PR 3

PR 971

PR 53

LOS MILLONES ST.

PR-3

PR 53

PR 53

PR 974

RAMP PR 975- PR53

PR 3

PR 975

PR 53

PR 53

PR 3

PR 53

PR 975

PR 53

PR 53

PR 53

PR 53

PR 977

PR 971

PR 975

PR 979

PR 3

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