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Fajardo County, PR

20 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 30% rated Good, 60% Fair, 10% Poor.

20
Public bridges
30%
Good condition
10%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Fajardo County posts a top-quartile lowest Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state across rated county bridge inventory.

Top 24%
lowest Poor share in state
10%
Poor-condition share
20
public highway bridges
1978
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.

Fajardo County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Fajardo County ranks #18 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 10%). Fajardo County, Puerto Rico contains 20 public highway bridges. Roughly 30% are rated “Good,” 60% “Fair,” and 10% “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

20

Public highway bridges in Fajardo County

Good condition

30%

6 of 20 rated 7-9

Fair condition

60%

12 of 20 rated 5-6

Poor condition

10%

2 of 20 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#18 of 74

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

Condition distribution

Share of 20 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good
30% (6)
Fair
60% (12)
Poor
10% (2)

Fajardo County's Poor-condition bridges carry 46,700 vehicle crossings a day

That is 17.1% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 10% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 23,350 crossings a day against 14,183 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 20 of 20 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

30% of Fajardo County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

6 of the 20 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 30% 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 76.2% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

PR 194 over LINEA CREEK, built 1882, carries 35,600 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 46,700 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

When Fajardo County's bridges were built

20 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade

bridges

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 6 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 30% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year (1978) matches the Puerto Rico average (1974).

Source FHWA National Bridge Inventory (year built) As of 2024 NBI release

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

The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Fajardo County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 10% Poor share is the 3rd-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1978 against a peer-group mean of 1968 is 10 years newer.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Fajardo County and the 5 Puerto Rico counties closest to it in inventory size
County Bridges Poor
Cabo Rojo County 21 28.6%
Cidra County 21 19%
Dorado County 20 0%
Luquillo County 20 15%
Naranjito County 20 10%
Fajardo County (this page) 20 10%

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 Fajardo 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 Fajardo County, both outside Puerto Rico so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside PR (20 bridges here).

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1978 here).

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

All 20 Good 6 Fair 12 Poor 2

All bridges (20)

PR 984

Fair

Over: WATERWAY

0.60 KM S INT PR940 &, Fajardo, PR

Built 1982 Load: 11.2 t ADT: 1,000

PR 984

Fair

Over: JUAN MARTIN RIVER

5 KM SOUTHWEST OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 1950 Load: 22.9 t ADT: 1,600

PR 3

Fair

Over: IGUALDAD STREET

0.2 KM SE INT PR195 &, Fajardo, PR

Built 1958 Load: 32.9 t ADT: 27,200

PR 984

Fair

Over: NARANJO CREEK

2.5 MILES S W OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 1966 Load: 36.7 t ADT: 600

PR 195

Fair

Over: PR 3

AT INT PR 3 & PR 195, Fajardo, PR

Built 1988 Load: 37.1 t ADT: 9,700

PR 977

Fair

Over: FAJARDO RIVER

5 KM NORTH EAST OF CEIBA, Fajardo, PR

Built 1974 Load: 39.8 t ADT: 400

PR 53

Fair

Over: PR 982

3.7 KM SOUTH OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 1994 Load: 42.9 t ADT: 19,100

PR 53 SOUTHBOUND

Fair

Over: FUTURE ROAD

2.5 KM SOUTH OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 1994 Load: 43.2 t ADT: 9,550

PR 53 NORTHBOUND

Fair

Over: FUTURE ROAD

2.5 KM SOUTH OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 1993 Load: 43.2 t ADT: 9,550

PR 3

Fair

Over: UNNAMED CREEK

0.4 KM S INT PR3 & PR, Fajardo, PR

Built 1988 Load: 46.0 t ADT: 24,700

PR 53

Fair

Over: MATA REDONDA CREEK

1.5 KM SOUTH OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 1993 Load: 47.9 t ADT: 22,400

PR 194

Fair

Over: FAJARDO CREEK

2.5 KM WEST OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 1984 Load: 51.5 t ADT: 15,400

11 STREET

Good

Over: FAJARDO CREEK

FAJARDO GARDENS, Fajardo, PR

Built 1984 Load: 20.3 t ADT: 500

PR 194

Good

Over: FAJARDO RIVER

0.8 KM NORTH OF INT PR 3, Fajardo, PR

Built 2005 Load: 29.0 t ADT: 22,200

PR-3

Good

Over: RIO FAJARDO

PR-3 KM 46.6, Fajardo, PR

Built 2019 Load: 31.9 t ADT: 24,700

PR 3

Good

Over: MATA REDONDA CREEK

1.5 KM SOUTH OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 1995 Load: 34.3 t ADT: 10,700

PR 978

Good

Over: SARDINERA CHANNEL

2.40 KM NORTH OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 2001 Load: 49.1 t ADT: 4,600

PR 53

Good

Over: CONNECTOR TO PR 3

2 KM SOUTH OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 1993 Load: 50.8 t ADT: 22,400

PR 194

Poor

Over: LINEA CREEK

2 KM WEST OF FAJARDO, Fajardo, PR

Built 1882 Load: 4.4 t ADT: 35,600

PR 3

Poor

Over: DEMAJAGUA RIVER

2.5 KM NORTH OF CEIBA, Fajardo, PR

Built 1918 Load: 49.8 t ADT: 11,100

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