Sevierville, TN's night sky, measured from orbit

Sevierville reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Sevierville's sky is brighter than 63.9% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to Sevierville

34 miles from Sevierville, straight-line, sits Farragut, TN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Sevierville's own suburban band.

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

How Sevierville compares nationally

About 18,231 people live in Sevierville, TN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Sevierville places 2,038 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.