Chino Valley, AZ's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Chino Valley in the dark sky band. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Only 0.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Chino Valley.

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

Chino Valley is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Chino Valley. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

How Chino Valley compares nationally

About 13,911 people live in Chino Valley, AZ, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Chino Valley places 6 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.