North Ridgeville, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

North Ridgeville's sky measures suburban edge here. 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 34% 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.

The nearest darker sky to North Ridgeville

15 miles from North Ridgeville, straight-line, sits Vermilion, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than North Ridgeville's own suburban edge band.

Vermilion, 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 North Ridgeville compares nationally

North Ridgeville, OH counts roughly 37,504 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. North Ridgeville places 1,085 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.