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Rochester, Minnesota

Apple HillBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 32 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area.

32

drone flights crossed Apple Hill.

5

of them in September 2026.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Apple Hill 32 times between 28 September 2025 and 26 September 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 26 September 2026.

5 of the 5 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.
Apple HillOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

28% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

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

Month by month

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

  1. 1
  2. 4
  3. 0
  4. 2
  5. 2
  6. 3
  7. 2
  8. 0
  9. 6
  10. 2
  11. 3
  12. 2
  13. 5
Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 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 32 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service78%
  2. Events12%
  3. Other6%
  4. Traffic and crashes3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 2 Sep 20262:10 pmCall for service16 minaa9ebe47
Thu 10 Sep 20269:27 amCall for service12 minec909ef8
Sat 12 Sep 20263:24 pmOther16 min0e3b40a5
Thu 17 Sep 20264:09 pmEvents16 mind467b555
Sat 26 Sep 20268:38 pmCall for service17 minb509feb1

All 5 flights in September 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. "Apple Hill" is a neighborhood polygon from Olmsted County GIS (Neighborhood Associations), licence recorded as "NOASSERTION", in the place layer file for Rochester. 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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