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Arvada, Colorado

Northwest ArvadaBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 37 of the 1,924 flights in Arvada Police Department's record crossed this area.

37

drone flights crossed Northwest Arvada.

8

of them in October 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Northwest Arvada 37 times between 29 May 2026 and 1 November 2026, by Arvada Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 1 November 2026.

8 of the 8 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
Northwest ArvadaOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

9 hours of flight time by flights that crossed this area.

14% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (MDT).

8 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are listed, and drawn as an area rather than a path.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Northwest Arvada, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 1
  2. 4
  3. 9
  4. 8
  5. 5
  6. 8
  7. 2
May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26Nov 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, grouped into classes, as a share of the 37 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service46%
  2. Other32%
  3. Assisting another agency8%
  4. Search8%
  5. Training and testing3%
  6. Patrol support3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20261:43 pmOther17 min4fc4e715
Fri 2 Oct 20262:52 pmOther18 min5e9023d6
Mon 5 Oct 20261:17 pmOther21 min7b3cc16a
Mon 5 Oct 20262:08 pmOther11 mincc6738f8
Wed 7 Oct 20262:07 pmSearch19 minaef2b282
Fri 23 Oct 20264:42 pmCall for service16 min0e2e7c41
Sun 25 Oct 202610:33 pmSearch18 min78d5b332
Wed 28 Oct 20267:22 pmCall for service12 minf3c4ec70

All 8 flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are listed and drawn as an area, not a path. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • 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.
  • Boundary. "Northwest Arvada" is a neighborhood polygon from City of Arvada (Neighborhoods), licence recorded as "NOASSERTION", in the place layer file for Arvada. Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication: ADR 0003 bars paging a place whose licence is unknown or share-alike; this page exists only in the local demo.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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