DarkSkyCheck

Kuna, ID Night Sky Brightness

Kuna, ID's night sky, measured from orbit

Rural
7.1 nW/cm2/sr

Kuna reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 10.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Kuna.

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 Kuna

West Richland, WA, about 242 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Kuna. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

West Richland, WA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Kuna compares nationally

About 29,127 people live in Kuna, ID, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Kuna's position, 340 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.