Bossier City, LA: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Bossier City in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 20.8% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Bossier City is from a meaningfully darker sky

Natchitoches, LA, about 63 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Bossier City. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Bossier City compares nationally

Bossier City, LA counts roughly 63,218 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Bossier City places 665 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.