Pocatello, ID Night Sky Brightness
Pocatello, ID's night sky, measured from orbit
Pocatello's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 50.5% 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.
Where to go for a darker sky near Pocatello
Chubbuck, ID, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Pocatello. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Chubbuck, 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 Pocatello compares nationally
About 58,231 people live in Pocatello, ID, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Pocatello's position, 1,610 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.