Soddy-Daisy, TN's night sky, measured from orbit

Soddy-Daisy'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. Soddy-Daisy's sky is brighter than 4.4% 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 Soddy-Daisy

23 miles from Soddy-Daisy, straight-line, sits Fort Oglethorpe, GA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Soddy-Daisy's own rural band.

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

How Soddy-Daisy compares nationally

Soddy-Daisy, TN has a population of about 13,430, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Soddy-Daisy places 140 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.