Riverton, UT Night Sky Brightness
Riverton, UT: how dark is the sky here?
Riverton's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 44% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Riverton.
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 Riverton
3 miles from Riverton, straight-line, sits Bluffdale, UT, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Riverton's own suburban band.
Bluffdale, UT is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Riverton compares nationally
About 46,680 people live in Riverton, UT, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Riverton places 1,404 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.