Liberty Lake, WA Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Liberty Lake, WA?
Liberty Lake's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 83.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Liberty Lake.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Liberty Lake
Post Falls, ID, about 8 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Liberty Lake. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Post Falls, ID is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Liberty Lake against the rest of the dataset
About 13,353 people live in Liberty Lake, WA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Liberty Lake comes in at 2,673, darkest to brightest.