How dark is the sky in Yelm, WA?

Yelm reads as dark sky on this dataset's scale. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Yelm's sky is brighter than 1.3% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

Yelm is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Yelm. 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.

Yelm against the rest of the dataset

About 11,715 people live in Yelm, WA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Yelm ranks 42 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.