Fountain Inn, SC: how dark is the sky here?

Fountain Inn 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. Fountain Inn's sky is brighter than 27.4% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to Fountain Inn

Tega Cay, SC, about 72 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Fountain Inn. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Tega Cay, 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 Fountain Inn compares nationally

Fountain Inn, SC has a population of about 13,786, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Fountain Inn places 875 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.