Fairmont, WV Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Fairmont, WV
Satellite radiance puts Fairmont in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 60.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Fairmont.
The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
Where to go for a darker sky near Fairmont
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Jefferson Hills, PA, roughly 58 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Jefferson Hills, PA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Fairmont against the rest of the dataset
Fairmont, WV has a population of about 18,063, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Fairmont ranks 1,917 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.