What the night sky looks like over Prineville, OR

Prineville'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 17.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Prineville.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

How far Prineville is from a meaningfully darker sky

91 miles from Prineville, straight-line, sits The Dalles, OR, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Prineville's own suburban edge band.

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

Prineville against the rest of the dataset

Prineville, OR counts roughly 11,917 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Prineville ranks 572 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.