Fife, WA Night Sky Brightness
Fife, WA: how dark is the sky here?
Fife reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 70.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Fife.
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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
The nearest darker sky to Fife
3 miles from Fife, straight-line, sits Edgewood, WA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Fife's own suburban band.
Edgewood, WA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Fife compares nationally
Fife, WA has a population of about 11,077, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Fife places 2,238 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.