Fair Oaks Ranch, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Fair Oaks Ranch reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 5.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Fair Oaks Ranch.

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

Where to go for a darker sky near Fair Oaks Ranch

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Los Lunas, NM, roughly 590 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Fair Oaks Ranch compares nationally

About 11,744 people live in Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Fair Oaks Ranch places 165 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.