Total bridges
41
Public highway bridges in Yabucoa County
County profile · official public datasets
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.
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.
When Yabucoa County's bridges were built
41 bridges with a recorded construction year, grouped by decade
- 1910s
1910–1919
5 bridges
- 1920s 1
1920–1929
1 bridges
- 1940s
1940–1949
7 bridges
- 1950s
1950–1959
4 bridges
- 1960s
1960–1969
5 bridges
- 1970s
1970–1979
4 bridges
- 1980s 2
1980–1989
2 bridges
- 1990s
1990–1999
9 bridges
- 2000s 1
2000–2009
1 bridges
- 2010s 3
2010–2019
3 bridges
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.
| 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.
Poor-condition bridges (9)
OFF PR 182
PoorOver: GUAYANES RIVER
0.2 KM SOUTH OF PR 182, Yabucoa, PR
Built 1988 Load: 11.1 t ADT: 200
SANTA ELENA STREET
PoorOver: CREEK
6 ST. SANTA ELENA YABUCOA, Yabucoa, PR
Built 1960 Load: 18.2 t ADT: 750
PR 181
PoorOver: SANCHEZ CREEK
12 KM NORTH OF PATILLAS, Yabucoa, PR
Built 1940 Load: 21.3 t ADT: 1,800
PR 181
PoorOver: PRIETO RIVER
20 MTS S INT PR 181 &, Yabucoa, PR
Built 1940 Load: 21.3 t ADT: 1,800
PR 900
PoorOver: GUAYABO CREEK
5.5 KM WEST OF YABUCOA, Yabucoa, PR
Built 1955 Load: 21.8 t ADT: 1,400
PR 182
PoorOver: SANTIAGO CHANNEL
3 KM WEST OF YABUCOA, Yabucoa, PR
Built 1946 Load: 35.2 t ADT: 7,100
PR 3
PoorOver: AGUACATE CREEK
5.5 KM N E OF YABUCOA, Yabucoa, PR
Built 1920 Load: 35.6 t ADT: 8,800
PR 920
PoorOver: WATERWAY
5.5 KM N W OF YABUCOA, Yabucoa, PR
Built 1973 Load: 39.1 t ADT: 2,000
PR 901
PoorOver: JUAN MARTIN CREEK
5 KM SOUTHEAST OF YABUCOA, Yabucoa, PR
Built 1963 Load: 49.1 t ADT: 4,500
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