Frisco, TX Night Sky Brightness
Frisco, TX's night sky, measured from orbit
Frisco's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 86% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Frisco.
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.
Where to go for a darker sky near Frisco
6 miles from Frisco, straight-line, sits Prosper, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Frisco's own urban band.
Prosper, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Frisco compares nationally
About 235,208 people live in Frisco, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Frisco's position, 2,742 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.