Hurst, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Hurst in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Hurst's sky is brighter than 84.6% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to Hurst

14 miles from Hurst, straight-line, sits Flower Mound, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Hurst's own suburban band.

Flower Mound, 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 Hurst compares nationally

Hurst, TX counts roughly 39,500 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Hurst places 2,697 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.