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Utuado County, PR

57 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 12.3% rated Good, 66.7% Fair, 21.1% Poor.

57
Public bridges: 12.3%
Good condition: 21.1%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Utuado 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.

60th
of 74 on Poor share: 21.1%
Poor-condition share: 57
public highway bridges: 1961
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.

Utuado County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Utuado County ranks #60 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 21.1%). Utuado County, Puerto Rico contains 57 public highway bridges. Roughly 12.3% are rated “Good,” 66.7% “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.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Utuado County

Good condition

12.3%

7 of 57 rated 7-9

Fair condition

66.7%

38 of 57 rated 5-6

Poor condition

21.1%

12 of 57 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#60 of 74

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

Condition distribution

Share of 57 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

12.3% (7)

Fair

66.7% (38)

Poor

21.1% (12)

Utuado County's Poor-condition bridges carry 49,650 vehicle crossings a day

That is 22.2% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 21.1% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry more traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 4,138 crossings a day against 7,314 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 57 of 57 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

63.2% of Utuado County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

36 of the 57 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 12.3% 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 18.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

PR 111 over VIVI RIVER, built 1965, carries 9,000 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 12-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 49,650 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

4
1920s

9
1930s

1
1940s

8
1950s

5
1960s

5
1970s

9
1980s

3
1990s

2
2000s

2
2010s

9

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1920s, when 9 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 95 to 104 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1961, 13 years older than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.

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

The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Utuado 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 1961 against a peer-group mean of 1975 is 14 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Utuado County and the 5 Puerto Rico counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Guaynabo County	63	28.6%	61.9%	9.5%	1981
Utuado County (this page)	57	12.3%	66.7%	21.1%	1961
Juana Díaz County	55	9.1%	72.7%	18.2%	1970
Arecibo County	51	3.9%	78.4%	17.6%	1971
Naguabo County	51	23.5%	66.7%	9.8%	1982
San Lorenzo County	51	15.7%	68.6%	15.7%	1970

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside PR (57 bridges here).

Summit County, CO · 57 bridges
DeSoto County, FL · 57 bridges
Dodge County, GA · 57 bridges
McIntosh County, GA · 57 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1961 here).

Westchester County, NY · avg 1961 · 774 bridges
Tehama County, CA · avg 1961 · 450 bridges
Berkshire County, MA · avg 1961 · 450 bridges
Schuylkill County, PA · avg 1961 · 368 bridges

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

All 57 Good 7 Fair 38 Poor 12

All bridges (57)

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Utuado County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Utuado County's Poor-condition bridges carry 49,650 vehicle crossings a day

63.2% of Utuado County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 18.1% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Utuado 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 (57)

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PR 612

PR 612

PR 140

PR 111

PR 140

PALMA STREET

PR 140

OFF PR 140

AR Ramos Street

PR 140

PR 140

PR 111

PR 140

PR 111

PR 601

PR 605

OFF PR 123 @ KM 52

PR 611

PR 140

PR 123

PR 123

PR 140

PR 140

PR 111R

PR 111

PR 140

PR 111

PR 123

PR 613

PR 123

PR 603

PR 111

OFF PR-612 AT 3.12

PR 10

PR 605

PR 10

ARCHILLA STREET

PR 10

PR 10

PR-10

PR 123

PR 10

PR 10

PR 140

PR 603

PR 111

RURAL LOCAL ROAD

PR 123

OFF PR 111 KM 47.1

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