Summerfield, NC: how dark is the sky here?

Summerfield reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Summerfield's sky is brighter than 7.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Summerfield is from a meaningfully darker sky

Suffolk, VA, about 185 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Summerfield. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Summerfield compares nationally

Summerfield, NC has a population of about 11,333, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Summerfield places 229 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.