Freeport, IL's night sky, measured from orbit

Freeport 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. Only 39.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Freeport.

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 Freeport

38 miles from Freeport, straight-line, sits Belvidere, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Freeport's own suburban edge band.

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

How Freeport compares nationally

Freeport, IL has a population of about 23,140, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Freeport places 1,256 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.