Chippewa Falls, WI's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Chippewa Falls 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. Only 34.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Chippewa Falls.

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

The nearest darker sky to Chippewa Falls

Menomonie, WI, about 26 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Chippewa Falls. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Chippewa Falls compares nationally

Chippewa Falls, WI has a population of about 15,075, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Chippewa Falls places 1,091 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.