Mountain Home, AR Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 2,142 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.