I live in an area like that. Most nights you see an occasional random meter, at best. They usually come in showers, being the broken remnants of comets’ tails; and the earth runs into them in her yearly orbit. That is why meteor showers are predicable, altho intensity can vary from year to year. The Leonid shower in Nov. 2002 was spectacular. I saw between 80 and 100 a minute from my deck! I sat there, bundled up, from 3:30 AM to sunup.