Red Oak, TX Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Red Oak, TX?
Red Oak's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 6.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Red Oak.
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.
The nearest darker sky to Red Oak
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Saraland, AL, roughly 523 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.
Saraland, AL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Red Oak against the rest of the dataset
Red Oak, TX has a population of about 19,365, 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, Red Oak comes in at 210, darkest to brightest.