Total bridges
19
Public highway bridges in Orocovis County
County profile · official public datasets
Orocovis County, PR
19 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 26.3% rated Good, 52.6% Fair, 21.1% Poor.
- 19
- Public bridges
- 26.3%
- Good condition
- 21.1%
- Poor condition
The verdict
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.
Orocovis County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.
- 61st
- of 74 on Poor share
- 21.1%
- Poor-condition share
- 19
- public highway bridges
- 1964
- 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.
Orocovis County Bridge Snapshot
According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Orocovis County ranks #61 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 21.1%). Orocovis County, Puerto Rico contains 19 public highway bridges. Roughly 26.3% are rated “Good,” 52.6% “Fair,” and 21.1% “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
26.3%
5 of 19 rated 7-9
Fair condition
52.6%
10 of 19 rated 5-6
Poor condition
21.1%
4 of 19 rated 4 or below
In-state Poor-share rank
#61 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 26.3% (5)
Fair 52.6% (10)
Poor 21.1% (4)
Orocovis County's Poor-condition bridges carry 2,200 vehicle crossings a day
That is 5.6% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 21.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 550 crossings a day against 4,280 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.
63.2% of Orocovis County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark
12 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 26.3% 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 86.4% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic
PR 568 over BOTIJAS RIVER, built 1924, carries 1,900 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 2,200 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.
When Orocovis County's bridges were built
19 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1900s 1
1900–1909
1 bridges
- 1920s
1920–1929
2 bridges
- 1930s 1
1930–1939
1 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
2 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
3 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
2 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
2 bridges
- 1980s 1
1980–1989
1 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
2 bridges
- 2000s
2000–2009
2 bridges
- 2010s 1
2010–2019
1 bridges
What this shows Construction peaked in the 1950s, when 3 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 15.8% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 65 to 74 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1964, 10 years older than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.
How Orocovis County compares with Puerto Rico's closest counties by inventory size
The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Orocovis County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 21.1% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1964 against a peer-group mean of 1973 is 9 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 |
| Aguada County | 19 | 15.8% | 73.7% | 10.5% | 1967 |
| Gurabo County | 19 | 21.1% | 78.9% | 0% | 1978 |
| Orocovis County (this page) | 19 | 26.3% | 52.6% | 21.1% | 1964 |
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 Orocovis 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 Orocovis 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 (1964 here).
- Bergen County, NJ · avg 1964 · 577 bridges
- Morris County, NJ · avg 1964 · 508 bridges
- Baltimore city County, MD · avg 1964 · 374 bridges
- Ross County, OH · avg 1964 · 356 bridges
Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.
Poor-condition bridges (4)
OFF PR 149 KM 42.3
PoorOver: RIO TORO NEGRO
KM 42.3 PR 149, Orocovis, PR
Built 1901 Load: 0.0 t ADT: 100
PR 568
PoorOver: BOTIJAS RIVER
1 KM NORTH OF OROCOVIS, Orocovis, PR
Built 1924 Load: 14.0 t ADT: 1,900
OFF PR-157 AT 2.20
PoorOver: RIACHUELOS RIVER
12.29 KM. NE. OF OROCOVIS, Orocovis, PR
Built 1990 Load: 23.7 t ADT: 100
OFF PR 157 AT 3.80
PoorOver: DE CACAOS CREEK
INT. PR 157 AND PR 149, Orocovis, PR
Built 1964 Load: 33.7 t ADT: 100
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