Outdoor Lighting in Indiana (2026)

The Allen County Zoning Ordinance requires exterior lighting (other than single- and two-family dwellings) to use…

Anderson requires site lighting to be uniform "down lighting" that is fully shielded on all sides and top, and…

The City of Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance requires most outdoor light fixtures to be fully shielded and…

Outdoor lighting in unincorporated Boone County, Indiana must match the design of the building and surrounding land use…

Carmel limits light spill at property lines and requires shielded, integrated fixtures. In residential districts no…

Within Evansville's Airport Overlay Zone, new site lighting must use full-cutoff fixtures aimed downward, no upward or…

Fort Wayne caps residential light trespass at 600 lumens for frosted or translucent covers, and requires full shielding…

Greenwood's UDO requires nearly all outdoor light fixtures to be full 90-degree cutoff fixtures, and any fixture over…

Indianapolis-Marion County's zoning code requires any exterior light source over 900 lumens, brighter than a 60-watt…

Unincorporated Lake County's UDO has no general residential dark-sky ordinance. The only codified downward-shielding…

Noblesville requires off-street parking lot lighting to use fully-shielded fixtures that avoid reflecting direct light…

Every outdoor light fixture regulated under Porter County's Unified Development Ordinance must be full cutoff and fully…

South Bend's Zoning Ordinance requires outdoor light fixtures to be full cutoff or fully shielded, caps color…

St. Joseph County's zoning code requires every outdoor light fixture serving a multi-family, commercial, industrial…

Tippecanoe County's Unified Zoning Ordinance controls glare from auto parking lot lighting rather than imposing a…

Elkhart County has no comprehensive dark-sky or full-cutoff lighting ordinance. Its Zoning Ordinance instead requires…

The Allen County Zoning Ordinance limits light spillover onto neighbors: where nonresidential development adjoins a…

Anderson's Zoning Code defines illumination as a shielded light directed solely at an object so the brightness does not…

Bloomington's Unified Development Ordinance caps how much light a fixture can throw across a property line: one…

Carmel's UDO caps light trespass at the property line: no lighting may cause illumination at or beyond any lot line in…

Elkhart County limits light spillover mainly through parking and buffering standards: off-street parking lighting must…

Evansville requires all sign lighting to be shielded so it never spills glare onto neighboring property or the roadway.

Fort Wayne caps residential outdoor lights at 600 lumens before frosted-glass shielding kicks in, and requires full…

Gary's only codified light-trespass rule sits inside the planned industrial park standards for the M1 district: Sec…

Outdoor lighting in Greenwood cannot exceed 0.5 foot-candles at a residential property line, 2.0 foot-candles at a…

Indianapolis-Marion County zoning limits how much light can spill onto a neighbor's land: Table 744-604-1 caps…

Unincorporated Lake County's UDO sets no numeric residential light-trespass (foot-candle) limit. Its enforceable…

In the City of Noblesville, § 159.201 of the Unified Development Ordinance caps site lighting citywide: light from…

Porter County's UDO caps light spilling onto a neighboring property line at five lux, with higher limits only where…

South Bend caps light at any lot line abutting a residential (S or U) district at 0.2 foot-candles, and 1.0 foot-candle…

St. Joseph County limits floodlights and other outdoor fixtures so their beam cannot spill onto a neighbor's land or a…

In Tippecanoe County's I1, I2 and I3 industrial zones, Unified Zoning Ordinance Section 4-10-4 caps light trespass at…

Vanderburgh County requires that lighting for off-street parking areas outside residential districts be shaded and…

In unincorporated Wayne County, Indiana, off-street parking areas must be lit so light does not spill onto neighboring…

Off-premises billboards in Indianapolis-Marion County may not use flashing, intermittent or moving lights, and may not…

Clark County bans specific lighting on off-premises billboards countywide: no emergency-look lights, no flashing or…

Illuminated billboards in the City of Greenwood, Indiana must meet Underwriter's Laboratory standards for their…

Vanderburgh County requires every illuminated sign, including off-premises billboards, to be shielded so its light…

Porter County treats a billboard as an 'outdoor advertising sign' under UDO Chapter 12, so any lighting on it must meet…