Pike Road, AL Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Pike Road, AL?
Pike Road reads as dark sky on this dataset's scale. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Pike Road's sky is brighter than 0.6% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
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.
Pike Road is already about as dark as this dataset gets
Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Pike Road. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.
Pike Road against the rest of the dataset
Pike Road, AL has a population of about 11,500, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Pike Road comes in at 22, darkest to brightest.