Fairview, OR: how dark is the sky here?

Fairview'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 39% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Fairview

16 miles from Fairview, straight-line, sits Lake Oswego, OR, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Fairview's own suburban edge band.

Lake Oswego, OR is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Fairview compares nationally

About 10,796 people live in Fairview, OR, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Fairview places 1,245 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.