Chestnut Ridge, NY Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Chestnut Ridge, NY?
Chestnut Ridge's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 28.6% of the 3,206 US 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, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Chestnut Ridge is from a meaningfully darker sky
Haverstraw, NY, about 8 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Chestnut Ridge. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Haverstraw, NY is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Chestnut Ridge against the rest of the dataset
Chestnut Ridge, NY has a population of about 10,746, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Chestnut Ridge comes in at 913, darkest to brightest.