Hugo, MN: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Hugo 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. Only 1.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hugo.

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.

Hugo is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Hugo. 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 Hugo compares nationally

Hugo, MN counts roughly 16,765 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Hugo places 46 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.