Victoria, MN: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Victoria in the dark sky band. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Victoria's sky is brighter than 0.7% 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.

Victoria is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Victoria. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

How Victoria compares nationally

About 11,937 people live in Victoria, MN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Victoria places 25 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.