Dearborn Heights, MI Night Sky Brightness
Dearborn Heights, MI: how dark is the sky here?
Dearborn Heights reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 63.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Dearborn Heights.
This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
How far Dearborn Heights is from a meaningfully darker sky
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Romulus, MI, roughly 9 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Romulus, MI is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Dearborn Heights compares nationally
Dearborn Heights, MI has a population of about 61,040, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Dearborn Heights places 2,028 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.