Hibbing, MN Night Sky Brightness
Hibbing, MN's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Hibbing 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. That's brighter than 21.4% of the 3,206 US 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Hibbing is from a meaningfully darker sky
51 miles from Hibbing, straight-line, sits Cloquet, MN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Hibbing's own suburban edge band.
Cloquet, MN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Hibbing compares nationally
Hibbing, MN has a population of about 15,940, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Hibbing's position, 683 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.