Trotwood, OH Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Trotwood, OH?
Trotwood reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 5.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Trotwood is from a meaningfully darker sky
256 miles from Trotwood, straight-line, sits Plano, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Trotwood's own rural band.
Plano, IL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Trotwood against the rest of the dataset
Trotwood, OH has a population of about 23,073, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Trotwood comes in at 166, darkest to brightest.