Hueytown, AL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Hueytown in the dark sky band. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Only 1.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hueytown.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Hueytown is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Hueytown. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

How Hueytown compares nationally

Hueytown, AL has a population of about 16,185, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Hueytown places 58 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.