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Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester Police Department

Rochester, Minnesota. 3,580 flights in the record from September 2025.

3,580

drone flights in the published record.

54

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Rochester Police Department drones flew 3,580 times between 9 September 2025 and 7 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 54 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 54 of 54 flights in October 2026.

52 of the 52 drawable flights in October 2026, sampled evenly. Each path is simplified, and its first and last 200 m are removed.
One flight; takeoff and landing removed

601 hours of flight time in the record.

9 in 10 flights were shorter than 18 minutes.

19% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights per month, by takeoff date on the agency's local calendar. Click a month for its days.

  1. 182
  2. 365
  3. 169
  4. 176
  5. 174
  6. 272
  7. 235
  8. 283
  9. 475
  10. 414
  11. 269
  12. 234
  13. 278
  14. 54
Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose for each flight, grouped into classes, as a share of all 3,580 flights.

  1. Call for service55%
  2. Training and testing19%
  3. Events18%
  4. Other3%
  5. Search2%
  6. Traffic and crashes2%
  7. Not stated1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.

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Flight list, October 2026

Every listable flight in the view, oldest first: date, takeoff time, purpose class, time airborne and the first eight characters of the source flight id. The filters above the map apply here too.

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20262:42 amCall for service20 min3c3a53de
Thu 1 Oct 20263:42 pmCall for service10 min686c8a10
Thu 1 Oct 20264:57 pmCall for service23 mina25abc0b
Thu 1 Oct 20266:22 pmCall for service19 minffb5d176
Thu 1 Oct 20268:30 pmEvents10 min12b691c9
Thu 1 Oct 202610:07 pmEvents13 min5ff20183
Thu 1 Oct 202610:54 pmEvents11 minaa30ef04
Thu 1 Oct 202611:42 pmEvents12 min4b88dbeb
Fri 2 Oct 202612:00 amCall for service20 min0140c823
Fri 2 Oct 20263:41 pmCall for service17 min45a59a65
Fri 2 Oct 20267:53 pmCall for service3 min83f1bfdf
Fri 2 Oct 20267:58 pmCall for service8 min01992bb8
Fri 2 Oct 20268:07 pmCall for service8 min3b95fd9a
Fri 2 Oct 20268:28 pmCall for service11 min56dbbe53
Fri 2 Oct 20268:58 pmCall for service13 min92594fd0
Fri 2 Oct 20269:26 pmCall for service6 min78425610
Fri 2 Oct 202610:06 pmCall for service11 min119ea5a0
Fri 2 Oct 202610:28 pmCall for service6 min59c7b64e
Fri 2 Oct 202611:10 pmCall for service13 minf4aadf7c
Sat 3 Oct 20262:42 amCall for service23 min79eb19cb
Sun 4 Oct 202612:36 amEvents5 min732004eb
Sun 4 Oct 202612:52 amEvents10 minb9ab0a90
Sun 4 Oct 20261:21 amEvents3 min9ff863e1
Mon 5 Oct 20267:37 pmCall for service9 mind1f80ab5
Mon 5 Oct 20268:32 pmCall for service10 mind90d0982
Mon 5 Oct 202611:02 pmCall for service4 min16e453df
Mon 5 Oct 202611:26 pmCall for service16 min157492dd
Tue 6 Oct 20264:35 amCall for service12 mineb9b7f64
Tue 6 Oct 20269:16 amTraffic and crashes12 minc790f7df
Tue 6 Oct 20269:52 amEvents14 min83d956b6
Tue 6 Oct 20261:55 pmCall for service12 minbc1c96cc
Tue 6 Oct 20264:36 pmEvents15 mine0a4e472
Tue 6 Oct 20265:26 pmCall for service16 mind81ea00a
Tue 6 Oct 20267:26 pmCall for service12 min8c967fd0
Tue 6 Oct 20267:40 pmCall for service6 minc6435891
Tue 6 Oct 20269:00 pmCall for service12 min1932a085
Tue 6 Oct 202610:10 pmEvents21 mineeee5ec2
Tue 6 Oct 202611:33 pmCall for service4 min868db49e
Wed 7 Oct 202612:15 amEvents17 min2973eabc
Wed 7 Oct 20261:38 amEvents4 min614e70d6
Wed 7 Oct 20261:48 amEvents12 minb1d46932
Wed 7 Oct 20262:38 amEvents10 minf84d6a6a
Wed 7 Oct 20261:03 pmEvents19 min9e7f80bf
Wed 7 Oct 20262:02 pmCall for service7 min2afffab9
Wed 7 Oct 20263:37 pmCall for service8 min2291a36e
Wed 7 Oct 20264:00 pmCall for service6 min025967b2
Wed 7 Oct 20267:11 pmCall for service3 min6cd8ff99
Wed 7 Oct 20267:35 pmCall for service4 min11df16c9
Wed 7 Oct 20268:15 pmCall for service8 min8c80136c
Wed 7 Oct 20268:33 pmCall for service15 min1618ad8d
Wed 7 Oct 20268:45 pmOther6 minbfa8598e
Wed 7 Oct 20269:18 pmTraining and testing1 min 29 s0a409001
Wed 7 Oct 20269:34 pmCall for service12 mincb35a98c
Wed 7 Oct 202610:27 pmCall for service16 min3d4d39ff

All 54 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

Places in this agency's area

  1. Downtown, Rochester
  2. Slatterly Park Neighbors, Rochester
  3. East Side, Rochester
  4. Elton Hills, Rochester
  5. Historic Southwest, Rochester
  6. John Adams, Rochester
  7. Cimarron, Rochester
  8. Kutzky Park, Rochester
  9. Lowertown, Rochester
  10. Sunnyside, Rochester
  11. Meadow Park Neighbors, Rochester
  12. Lincolnshire - Arbor Glen, Rochester

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 300 flights, sampled evenly from the latest full month, and the flight list is that month, capped at 500 rows. With filters the map draws at most 400 and the list at most 500, both sampled evenly, and the count line says when a cap applied. Each month's flights are a static JSON file under flights/ next to this page; the whole-record option is an even 300-flight sample.
  • Published by the feed named: Rochester Police Department - MN. The name shown on this site is that feed name cleaned of tags, prefixes and suffixes.

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