St. Albans, WV: how dark is the sky here?

St. Albans'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. St. Albans's sky is brighter than 25.4% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to St. Albans

66 miles from St. Albans, straight-line, sits Portsmouth, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than St. Albans's own suburban edge band.

Portsmouth, 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 St. Albans compares nationally

About 10,301 people live in St. Albans, WV, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. St. Albans places 811 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.