Vermilion, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Vermilion's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 3.7% of the 3,206 US 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.

The nearest darker sky to Vermilion

197 miles from Vermilion, straight-line, sits St. Marys, PA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Vermilion's own rural band.

St. Marys, PA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Vermilion compares nationally

About 10,733 people live in Vermilion, OH, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Vermilion places 119 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.