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Yabucoa County, PR

41 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 22% rated Good, 56.1% Fair, 22% Poor.

41
Public bridges: 22%
Good condition: 22%
Poor condition

The verdict

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

Yabucoa 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.

64th
of 74 on Poor share: 22%
Poor-condition share: 41
public highway bridges: 1966
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.

Yabucoa County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Yabucoa County ranks #64 of 74 Puerto Rico counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 22%). Yabucoa County, Puerto Rico contains 41 public highway bridges. Roughly 22% are rated “Good,” 56.1% “Fair,” and 22% “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 Yabucoa County

Good condition

22%

9 of 41 rated 7-9

Fair condition

56.1%

23 of 41 rated 5-6

Poor condition

22%

9 of 41 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#64 of 74

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

Condition distribution

Share of 41 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

22% (9)

Fair

56.1% (23)

Poor

22% (9)

Yabucoa County's Poor-condition bridges carry 28,350 vehicle crossings a day

That is 12.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 22% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 3,150 crossings a day against 6,693 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 41 of 41 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

63.4% of Yabucoa County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

26 of the 41 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 22% 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 31% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

PR 3 over AGUACATE CREEK, built 1920, carries 8,800 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 9-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 28,350 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

1910s

5
1920s

1
1940s

7
1950s

4
1960s

5
1970s

4
1980s

2
1990s

9
2000s

1
2010s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1990s, when 9 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 22% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 25 to 34 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1966, 8 years older than the Puerto Rico average of 1974.

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

The 5 Puerto Rico counties nearest Yabucoa County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 22% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1966 against a peer-group mean of 1977 is 11 years older.

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

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Yabucoa County and the 5 Puerto Rico counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Río Grande County	47	34%	53.2%	12.8%	1979
Mayagüez County	45	20%	68.9%	11.1%	1971
San Germán County	45	26.7%	53.3%	20%	1975
Yabucoa County (this page)	41	22%	56.1%	22%	1966
Salinas County	40	2.5%	77.5%	20%	1976
Yauco County	40	20%	65%	15%	1986

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

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside PR (41 bridges here).

Saguache County, CO · 41 bridges
Echols County, GA · 41 bridges
Pike County, GA · 41 bridges
Ohio County, IN · 41 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside PR (1966 here).

Butler County, KS · avg 1966 · 591 bridges
Grafton County, NH · avg 1966 · 544 bridges
Queens County, NY · avg 1966 · 514 bridges
Lehigh County, PA · avg 1966 · 381 bridges

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

All 41 Good 9 Fair 23 Poor 9

Fair-condition bridges (23)

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Yabucoa County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Yabucoa County's Poor-condition bridges carry 28,350 vehicle crossings a day

63.4% of Yabucoa County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 31% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Yabucoa 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

Fair-condition bridges (23)

OFF PR 900 AT K0.7

PR 181

PR 904

PR 181

PR 181

OFFPR 900 KM .65

PR 3

OFF PR 182

PR 901

PR 902

PR 182

PR 9910

PR 9905

PR 3

PR 3

PR 3

OFF PR 182@14.2

PR 3

PR 905

PR 920

PR 53

PR 53

PR 3

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