What the night sky looks like over Fortuna, CA

Fortuna 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. That's brighter than 11.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Fortuna

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Truckee, CA, roughly 226 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

Fortuna against the rest of the dataset

Fortuna, CA counts roughly 12,114 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Fortuna ranks 359 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.