Farmington Hills, MI Night Sky Brightness
Farmington Hills, MI's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Farmington Hills in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 22.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Farmington Hills.
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.
Where to go for a darker sky near Farmington Hills
Oregon, OH, about 57 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Farmington Hills. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Oregon, OH is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Farmington Hills compares nationally
Farmington Hills, MI counts roughly 84,173 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Farmington Hills's position, 717 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.