Fort Morgan, CO Night Sky Brightness
Fort Morgan, CO: how dark is the sky here?
Fort Morgan's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Fort Morgan's sky is brighter than 70.5% of the 3,206 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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
The nearest darker sky to Fort Morgan
40 miles from Fort Morgan, straight-line, sits Sterling, CO, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Fort Morgan's own suburban band.
Sterling, CO is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Fort Morgan compares nationally
Fort Morgan, CO has a population of about 11,835, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Fort Morgan places 2,248 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.