Cleburne, TX Night Sky Brightness
Cleburne, TX's night sky, measured from orbit
Cleburne reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Cleburne's sky is brighter than 14.7% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Cleburne is from a meaningfully darker sky
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Red Oak, TX, roughly 38 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Red Oak, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Cleburne compares nationally
About 38,131 people live in Cleburne, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Cleburne's position, 468 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.