Fitchburg, MA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Fitchburg in the dark sky band. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Fitchburg's sky is brighter than 0.9% 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.

Fitchburg is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Fitchburg. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

How Fitchburg compares nationally

About 42,145 people live in Fitchburg, MA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Fitchburg places 31 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.