Brecksville, OH Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Brecksville, OH?
Brecksville's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 10.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Brecksville.
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, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Brecksville is from a meaningfully darker sky
St. Marys, PA, about 161 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Brecksville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
St. Marys, PA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Brecksville against the rest of the dataset
About 13,951 people live in Brecksville, OH, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Brecksville comes in at 346, darkest to brightest.