Lake Elmo, MN: how dark is the sky here?

Lake Elmo 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 2.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lake Elmo.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Lake Elmo is from a meaningfully darker sky

12 miles from Lake Elmo, straight-line, sits Hugo, MN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lake Elmo's own rural band.

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

How Lake Elmo compares nationally

About 14,161 people live in Lake Elmo, MN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Lake Elmo places 91 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.