NoiseLevelCheck

Powers, OR Noise Levels

Is Powers, OR noisy?

Powers, OR sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. This describes Powers as a whole, not a specific block, the underlying BTS map resolves to about 38 meters per pixel, sampled at the town's own center point.

Where Powers ranks

Powers is one of 8,515 places in this dataset with no measurable transportation noise at all, too quiet to rank on loudness. Population is about 703, 11,816th largest of the 12,137 places covered here.

Your street may differ from Powers's reading

This page describes Powers as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.

See BTS's official National Transportation Noise Map

Behind Powers's reading

The methodology guide shows exactly how Powers's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Powers isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.