Newport, OR: how dark is the sky here?

Newport's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 33.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Newport.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Newport

45 miles from Newport, straight-line, sits Independence, OR, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Newport's own suburban edge band.

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

How Newport compares nationally

Newport, OR has a population of about 10,833, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Newport places 1,071 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.