What the night sky looks like over Radford, VA

Radford reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 14.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Radford.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Radford

Lewisville, NC, about 71 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Radford. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Radford against the rest of the dataset

About 17,273 people live in Radford, VA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Radford ranks 459 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.