Mountain Home, ID: how dark is the sky here?

Mountain Home reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Mountain Home's sky is brighter than 63.5% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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 Mountain Home is from a meaningfully darker sky

Boise City, ID, about 42 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Mountain Home. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Boise City, ID 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 16,912 people live in Mountain Home, ID, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Mountain Home places 2,026 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.