Mountain Home, AR's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Mountain Home in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 67.2% of the 3,206 US 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 Mountain Home

Branson, MO, about 54 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Mountain Home. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Mountain Home compares nationally

About 13,348 people live in Mountain Home, AR, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Mountain Home places 2,142 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.