Total bridges
9
Public highway bridges in Hatillo County
County profile · official public datasets
Hatillo County, PR
9 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 11.1% rated Good, 77.8% Fair, 11.1% Poor.
- 9
- Public bridges
- 11.1%
- Good condition
- 11.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Hatillo County pairs a better-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with a newer average build year than the state inventory.
- Top 35%
- lowest Poor share in state
- 11.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 9
- public highway bridges
- 1981
- 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.
Hatillo County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Hatillo County ranks #26 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 11.1%). Hatillo County, Puerto Rico contains 9 public highway bridges. Roughly 11.1% are rated “Good,” 77.8% “Fair,” and 11.1% “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
11.1%
1 of 9 rated 7-9
Fair condition
77.8%
7 of 9 rated 5-6
Poor condition
11.1%
1 of 9 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#26 of 74
Among Puerto Rico counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better
Condition distribution
Share of 9 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.
Good 11.1% (1)
Fair 77.8% (7)
Poor 11.1% (1)
Hatillo County's Poor-condition bridges carry 10,900 vehicle crossings a day
That is 7.8% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 11.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 10,900 crossings a day against 33,300 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 9 of 9 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
22.2% of Hatillo County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
2 of the 9 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 11.1% 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 100% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
PR 493 over PR 22, built 1980, carries 10,900 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 1-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.
Share is of the 10,900 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Hatillo County's bridges were built
9 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1940s 1
1940–1949
1 bridges
- 1960s 1
1960–1969
1 bridges
- 1980s
1980–1989
4 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
2 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1980s, when 4 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 44.4% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 35 to 44 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1981, 7 years newer than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.
How Hatillo County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Hatillo County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 11.1% Poor share is the 1st-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1981 against a peer-group mean of 1978 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Isabel County | 12 | 0% | 75% | 25% | 1970 |
| Trujillo Alto County | 12 | 16.7% | 50% | 33.3% | 1980 |
| Barceloneta County | 11 | 0% | 81.8% | 18.2% | 1982 |
| Hatillo County (this page) | 9 | 11.1% | 77.8% | 11.1% | 1981 |
| Rincón County | 8 | 50% | 25% | 25% | 1986 |
| Lajas County | 6 | 16.7% | 50% | 33.3% | 1972 |
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 Hatillo County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
Fair-condition bridges (7)
PR 22
FairOver: PR 2
AT INT OF PR 22 AND PR 2, Hatillo, PR
Built 1980 Load: 23.3 t ADT: 34,200
PR 130
FairOver: DEPRESSION
HATILLO LADO PIZZA HUT, Hatillo, PR
Built 1990 Load: 32.9 t ADT: 6,000
PR 4491
FairOver: CAMUY RIVER
1.5 KM WEST OF HATILLO, Hatillo, PR
Built 1942 Load: 37.6 t ADT: 10,400
PR 493
FairOver: SECA CREEK
1.8 KM INT PR492 & PR, Hatillo, PR
Built 1968 Load: 38.9 t ADT: 10,900
OFF PR 493 KM 1.30
FairOver: PR 22
4.8 KM W INT P R22, Hatillo, PR
Built 1980 Load: 47.3 t ADT: 500
PR 2
FairOver: CAMUY RIVER & LOCAL
1.5 KM WEST OF HATILLO, Hatillo, PR
Built 1987 Load: 52.1 t ADT: 33,300
PR 488
FairOver: CAMUY RIVER
8.5 km. SW of Hatillo, Hatillo, PR
Built 2008 Load: 67.8 t ADT: 1,000
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