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.

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 places 3,035 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.