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Rochester, Minnesota

DowntownBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 2,165 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area.

2,165

drone flights crossed Downtown.

34

of them in October 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 2,165 times between 9 September 2025 and 7 October 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 7 October 2026.

33 of the 33 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, minus its first and last 200 m.
DowntownOne flight; takeoff and landing removed

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

20% of them 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 that crossed Downtown, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. 102
  2. 234
  3. 99
  4. 112
  5. 102
  6. 177
  7. 122
  8. 167
  9. 275
  10. 252
  11. 172
  12. 143
  13. 174
  14. 34
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, grouped into classes, as a share of the 2,165 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service58%
  2. Events20%
  3. Training and testing15%
  4. Other4%
  5. Search2%
  6. Traffic and crashes2%
  7. Not stated1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

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 20268:30 pmEvents10 min12b691c9
Thu 1 Oct 202610:07 pmEvents13 min5ff20183
Thu 1 Oct 202610:54 pmEvents11 minaa30ef04
Fri 2 Oct 202612:00 amCall for service20 min0140c823
Fri 2 Oct 20267:53 pmCall for service3 min83f1bfdf
Fri 2 Oct 20268:07 pmCall for service8 min3b95fd9a
Fri 2 Oct 20268:58 pmCall for service13 min92594fd0
Fri 2 Oct 20269:26 pmCall for service6 min78425610
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 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
Tue 6 Oct 20264:35 amCall for service12 mineb9b7f64
Tue 6 Oct 20269:16 amTraffic and crashes12 minc790f7df
Tue 6 Oct 20261:55 pmCall for service12 minbc1c96cc
Tue 6 Oct 20264:36 pmEvents15 mine0a4e472
Tue 6 Oct 20267:26 pmCall for service12 min8c967fd0
Tue 6 Oct 20267:40 pmCall for service6 minc6435891
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 20267:35 pmCall for service4 min11df16c9
Wed 7 Oct 20268:15 pmCall for service8 min8c80136c
Wed 7 Oct 20268:45 pmOther6 minbfa8598e
Wed 7 Oct 20269:34 pmCall for service12 mincb35a98c

All 34 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.

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.
  • Boundary. "Downtown" 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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