Roseburg, OR Night Sky Brightness
Roseburg, OR's night sky, measured from orbit
Roseburg's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Roseburg's sky is brighter than 92.7% of the 3,206 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.
The nearest darker sky to Roseburg
42 miles from Roseburg, straight-line, sits Cottage Grove, OR, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Roseburg's own urban band.
Cottage Grove, OR is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Roseburg compares nationally
About 23,795 people live in Roseburg, OR, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Roseburg's position, 2,954 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.