Blackfoot, ID's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Blackfoot in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 65.4% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Blackfoot is from a meaningfully darker sky

Chubbuck, ID, about 19 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Blackfoot. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Chubbuck, ID is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Blackfoot compares nationally

Blackfoot, ID has a population of about 13,224, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Blackfoot places 2,084 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.