Freeport, NY Night Sky Brightness
Freeport, NY's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Freeport in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 95.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Freeport is from a meaningfully darker sky
Rockville Centre, NY, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Freeport. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Rockville Centre, NY 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, NY has a population of about 44,028, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Freeport's position, 3,035 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.