Burleson, TX Night Sky Brightness
Burleson, TX's night sky, measured from orbit
Burleson reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 21.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Burleson.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Burleson
31 miles from Burleson, straight-line, sits Red Oak, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Burleson's own suburban edge band.
Red Oak, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Burleson compares nationally
Burleson, TX has a population of about 56,253, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Burleson's position, 695 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.