Parkersburg, WV Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Parkersburg, WV
Satellite radiance puts Parkersburg in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 86.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Parkersburg.
The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
The nearest darker sky to Parkersburg
Vienna, WV, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Parkersburg. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Vienna, WV is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Parkersburg against the rest of the dataset
Parkersburg, WV has a population of about 28,834, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Parkersburg ranks 2,763 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.