A grid its customers lose for 73 hours a year, a water system that loses 58% of what it produces, 54,915 homes missing for its poorest renters, 44% of its people on food assistance and 97% of its dams rated high-hazard — Puerto Rico's needs are published, countable and, in most categories, still larger than the response.
How to read this page: the class chip on every measure is the honesty label. Counted = an inspection or enumeration record. Modeled = a study's projection or risk score — printed with the modeler's name. Assessed = a structured survey of required investment — needs as documented, not measurements of decay. Figures keep the form their source gave them; years are printed on every measure.
Click any category to expand it — every measure with its figure, what it means in plain language, and its source.
Nine categories are published. Eight carry sourced Puerto Rico measures (18 in total). One category is published honestly empty: Traffic & congestion. No current instrument publishes a Puerto Rico delay figure — TTI's recent Urban Mobility Reports carry no San Juan per-commuter number, and the last retrievable figures (TTI 2012: 29 hours of delay per auto commuter; FHWA's partially-complete 2021 congestion reporting) are too old or too incomplete to print as measures. The category stands with an editorial band and its reason printed, on the Vermont traffic precedent.
Unpublished and substituted, named rather than hidden: the Chartis/CHQPR rural-hospital screen does not cover Puerto Rico, so Hospitals carries the territory's own published figures (sector losses, liabilities and the medical association's closure warning) instead of a vulnerable-hospital count; Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap does not cover Puerto Rico — its own site says so — so Food carries NAP participation and the 2020 GWU survey; EPA's DWINSA publishes no verifiable Puerto-Rico-specific dollar need, so Water carries ASCE's measured losses instead of a dollar backlog. Source vintages, stated plainly: ASCE's Report Card for Puerto Rico's Infrastructure is from 2019 (grades: overall D-; energy F; drinking water D; wastewater D+; dams D+; bridges D+; ports D; roads D-; solid waste D-) and remains the only comprehensive published assessment — its water and dams measures are the oldest on this page and are labelled with their years. The freshest anchors are EIA's 2024 reliability accounting (published August 2025), NLIHC's Gap and Out of Reach (2025–26), the 2024 bridge inventory and October 2026 hospital-sector reporting.
Severity scores are an editorial band, set from the cited measures in each category and explained in each category's basis — they are judgments for comparison across this page, not measurements, and nowhere on this page is a mainland figure presented as a Puerto Rico figure.