Noise Levels in Point Of Rocks, WY | Find Quiet Neighborhoods With Our Sound Map
59 dBA
Average noise across Point Of Rocks
Normal conversation an arm’s length away
13
Residents above the EPA 55 dBA threshold
32% of Point Of Rocks residents
103 dBA
Loudest residential point
Power saw
This map shows modeled outdoor noise across Point Of Rocks at 100-meter resolution, combining road, aviation, and rail sources. Green areas measure below 45 dBA. Orange and red exceed the EPA's 55 dBA outdoor threshold linked to long-term health effects. Use the layer toggles to view each source on its own or all together.
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What the numbers sound like
30 dBAWhisper
40 dBASoft rainfall
45 dBAQuiet suburban street at night
50 dBAQuiet office
55 dBAEPA outdoor threshold: light traffic 100 ft away
60 dBANormal conversation an arm's length away
65 dBABusy restaurant
70 dBAHighway traffic 50 ft away
80 dBACity bus interior
Population Above the EPA Outdoor Threshold
The EPA's 55 dBA outdoor reference level is a common benchmark for residential noise exposure, especially for activity interference, annoyance, and long-term community noise concerns. About 13 Point Of Rocks residents, or 32.5%, live above that level. By land area, 26.5% of Point Of Rocks is above 55 dBA.
Western Point Of Rocks sounds about 0% louder than Eastern Point Of Rocks to the human ear, a 0.0 dBA gap. Every 10 dBA roughly doubles perceived loudness. Within any of these directions, two homes a quarter mile apart can still differ by 10 or more dBA depending on how close they sit to a major highway.
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Loudest Road Corridors
The model evaluates every road in Point Of Rocks using federal traffic counts, posted speeds, heavy-truck ratios, and pavement type. The source level shown is the modeled noise at the road centerline, where it is loudest. Noise drops with distance, faster in vegetated areas and slower over open pavement.
RoadTypeAvg. source dBAPeak source dBA
I-80Interstate73.375
US Hwy 30Interstate71.574
UnknownMajor collector46.655
Wy 377Major collector48.048
How far back from I-80 do you need to be?
I-80 produces an estimated 75 dBA at its loudest centerline points. Noise drops logarithmically with distance, with the exact rate depending on what's between you and the road. Tree cover, walls, terrain, and pavement type all matter. At roughly a quarter mile back, traffic fades into the noise level of a soft rainfall.
At source
75 dBA
City bus interior
165 ft
62 dBA
Busy restaurant
330 ft
55 dBA
Quiet office to normal conversation
660 ft
48 dBA
Quiet office
¼ mile
41 dBA
Soft rainfall
½ mile
35 dBA
Soft rainfall
Calculated from the model's calibrated attenuation formula. About 0% of Point Of Rocks sits under tree canopy (much lighter than most cities) and roughly 0% is impervious surface like pavement and rooftops. Both are folded into the per-place decay rate above. Heavier canopy pulls noise down faster with distance; impervious surfaces slow the drop.
Rail Noise
Active freight rail runs through parts of Point Of Rocks. For most blocks the rail-only contribution is small. Combined road-plus-rail noise rarely exceeds road noise on its own. The exceptions are the handful of blocks within roughly a quarter mile of the right-of-way during pass-through hours.
Use the Rail toggle on the map above to isolate rail's contribution from road and aviation.
How Noise Is Distributed Across Point Of Rocks
The bar chart below shows the share of Point Of Rocks residents in each noise band. About 5% of residents live below the EPA's 55 dBA threshold, and roughly 95% live in blocks above 60 dBA. Long-term exposure in that range is linked to elevated stress hormones and cardiovascular risk.
How Point Of Rocks Compares
Point Of Rocks sits at the louder end of the spectrum. Below: how Point Of Rocks's average outdoor noise and share of residents above the EPA threshold compare with Tipton, Sage, Superior, and James Town.
Average noise level (dBA)
Point Of Rocks's 59.3 dBA pop-weighted average is at the louder end of the spectrum. Wyoming as a whole averages 48.0 dBA and the U.S. averages 52.0 dBA. Both are lower than Point Of Rocks because most of either area is rural land away from major roads.
Share of residents above 55 dBA
About 32.5% of Point Of Rocks residents live in blocks where outdoor levels exceed the EPA's 55 dBA threshold. That's more than any of its peer group. Measured by land area instead, 26.5% of Point Of Rocks's footprint sits above 55 dBA, against a Wyoming average of 13.3% and a national average of 28.1%.
What This Means if You're Moving to Point Of Rocks
Distance from highways matters more than the neighborhood name. Two homes in the same zip code can differ by 20 dBA if one sits 100 meters from I-80 and the other 500 meters away. The model captures this at 100-meter resolution, so noise exposure changes block by block.
Tree canopy can help reduce modeled noise exposure. Roughly 0% of Point Of Rocks is under tree cover (much lighter than most cities), and the dominant land cover is shrub / scrub. Both are measured from federal USDA Forest Service and USGS satellite imagery at 30-meter resolution. Streets with 60% or higher canopy show 3 to 5 dBA lower noise than comparable streets with bare ground or pavement, which is why the per-place decay rate above already accounts for it.
Sources & Methodology
The BestNeighborhood noise model is calibrated against nearly one million federal ground-truth measurements across four states. Road noise is computed from segment-level federal traffic data and propagated outward using physics-based acoustic decay, with attenuation rates that depend on the surrounding land cover.
All inputs are published federal datasets. Block-level noise is computed by combining road, rail, and aviation sound sources in the energy domain, the same physics used in professional environmental noise assessments. Read the full methodology.
