Forest Acres, SC: how dark is the sky here?

Forest Acres 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. That's brighter than 27.5% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Forest Acres

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Columbia, SC, roughly 4 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Forest Acres compares nationally

Forest Acres, SC counts roughly 10,438 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Forest Acres places 877 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.