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Rochester, Minnesota

Downtown, September 2025

A neighborhood page. 102 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2025.

102

drone flights crossed Downtown.

102

of them in September 2025.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 102 times between 9 September 2025 and 30 September 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2025.

102 of the 102 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 2025. 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.
DowntownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

16% 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.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 102 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service48%
  2. Training and testing33%
  3. Other8%
  4. Events7%
  5. Traffic and crashes2%
  6. Search2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 9 Sep 20252:53 pmTraining and testing5 min72d33209
Tue 9 Sep 20253:08 pmTraining and testing4 mind384f2e1
Tue 9 Sep 20253:13 pmTraining and testing2 min0e653cb2
Thu 11 Sep 20252:18 pmTraining and testing18 mine1f77644
Thu 11 Sep 20253:18 pmCall for service21 mina81b353e
Fri 12 Sep 202510:02 amTraining and testing15 mina0c1b791
Fri 12 Sep 202511:35 amTraining and testing1 min 04 s892d16cf
Fri 12 Sep 202512:06 pmTraining and testing2 mina0003ec6
Fri 12 Sep 202512:55 pmTraining and testing16 mincec8230e
Fri 12 Sep 20251:32 pmTraining and testing9 minccbd0d1a
Fri 12 Sep 20252:09 pmTraining and testing15 min2f689e54
Wed 17 Sep 20252:55 pmTraining and testing4 min1789923e
Wed 17 Sep 20253:31 pmEvents10 min10070bb6
Thu 18 Sep 20251:23 pmTraining and testing43 s2ae72b38
Thu 18 Sep 20251:44 pmEvents11 min573c3844
Thu 18 Sep 20255:28 pmEvents21 min940e1e9a
Thu 18 Sep 20256:08 pmTraining and testing4 min7de67779
Fri 19 Sep 20259:10 amCall for service17 min9b4f1bc5
Fri 19 Sep 202510:00 amTraffic and crashes7 min107eb8fe
Fri 19 Sep 202512:25 pmCall for service12 min50592fdd
Fri 19 Sep 20251:00 pmCall for service10 mind3248199
Fri 19 Sep 20251:41 pmCall for service12 min4fb392ce
Fri 19 Sep 20252:02 pmEvents14 minbefb404b
Fri 19 Sep 20253:54 pmCall for service18 min7492a7f3
Fri 19 Sep 20255:33 pmCall for service17 min3ec535bf
Fri 19 Sep 20258:49 pmCall for service16 min529ac354
Sat 20 Sep 20257:00 pmCall for service6 mind65e818f
Sat 20 Sep 20259:24 pmCall for service10 min7ff9956a
Sat 20 Sep 202511:02 pmOther14 min611be1d7
Sat 20 Sep 202511:26 pmEvents10 mind595f7bf
Sun 21 Sep 202512:29 amCall for service19 min48503dbf
Sun 21 Sep 20251:25 amCall for service12 min712a10b3
Sun 21 Sep 20252:05 amCall for service9 minb8af0be6
Mon 22 Sep 202511:58 amOther18 minf34fd15d
Mon 22 Sep 20251:46 pmTraining and testing21 mindc2f6d1c
Mon 22 Sep 20252:38 pmTraining and testing16 min4c8c87a2
Mon 22 Sep 20252:58 pmTraining and testing54 sae60cf27
Mon 22 Sep 20253:01 pmTraining and testing1 min 26 s7882941c
Mon 22 Sep 20253:42 pmCall for service8 min43a9ed80
Mon 22 Sep 20254:47 pmTraining and testing43 s02104cd7
Wed 24 Sep 202510:50 amTraining and testing4 mine182a61f
Wed 24 Sep 20251:29 pmSearch17 min401442f3
Wed 24 Sep 20252:03 pmTraining and testing9 minbbc9a5ee
Wed 24 Sep 20252:31 pmTraining and testing5 min0bd1cfb5
Wed 24 Sep 20252:58 pmTraining and testing9 min846953f3
Wed 24 Sep 20253:19 pmTraining and testing7 min48213b33
Wed 24 Sep 20254:55 pmCall for service13 min9e24f8bf
Wed 24 Sep 20256:46 pmCall for service14 mina41da560
Wed 24 Sep 20257:02 pmCall for service8 min8c6cfffd
Wed 24 Sep 20258:14 pmCall for service11 minb9c85980
Wed 24 Sep 20258:31 pmCall for service6 min3f98bbf3
Wed 24 Sep 20259:09 pmCall for service8 minf62d8579
Wed 24 Sep 20259:40 pmCall for service6 min54e1e2f2
Wed 24 Sep 20259:58 pmCall for service12 minf8a283fc
Wed 24 Sep 202510:50 pmCall for service4 minf5b86d24
Wed 24 Sep 202511:09 pmCall for service10 min0c895074
Thu 25 Sep 20258:44 amEvents11 min8aad29e9
Thu 25 Sep 20259:36 amCall for service4 mina16c1a0a
Thu 25 Sep 20259:44 amCall for service8 minff9bfde5
Thu 25 Sep 202511:06 amTraining and testing4 min3c90ecea
Thu 25 Sep 20251:38 pmCall for service12 min7c3d2be6
Thu 25 Sep 20252:00 pmTraining and testing43 sd7e867e4
Thu 25 Sep 20255:01 pmCall for service8 min372398e0
Thu 25 Sep 20255:21 pmTraining and testing8 min58404a1a
Thu 25 Sep 20255:35 pmTraining and testing8 minff7140c0
Thu 25 Sep 20256:36 pmCall for service8 min827f66a0
Thu 25 Sep 20256:51 pmSearch14 min925edddf
Thu 25 Sep 20257:25 pmCall for service5 min9952c1e6
Thu 25 Sep 20258:38 pmCall for service6 min780f4152
Thu 25 Sep 20258:55 pmCall for service13 mine2e0dc4d
Thu 25 Sep 20259:30 pmCall for service18 min82bbae8a
Thu 25 Sep 202511:14 pmEvents6 min06157554
Thu 25 Sep 202511:36 pmTraining and testing54 s529e9c5b
Fri 26 Sep 20257:40 amCall for service13 min06d89815
Fri 26 Sep 202512:40 pmTraining and testing19 min8e9b3bd1
Fri 26 Sep 20251:31 pmTraining and testing11 min4846a6de
Fri 26 Sep 20252:06 pmTraining and testing15 min86c114ee
Fri 26 Sep 20252:53 pmTraining and testing15 minc937072d
Fri 26 Sep 20253:28 pmTraining and testing10 mind11d6481
Fri 26 Sep 20253:49 pmCall for service9 min71f44cdf
Fri 26 Sep 20254:49 pmOther15 min84d5d381
Fri 26 Sep 20255:51 pmCall for service8 min932dbf4f
Sat 27 Sep 20252:58 pmCall for service12 min625c5651
Sat 27 Sep 20254:13 pmCall for service14 min942adccc
Sat 27 Sep 20255:05 pmCall for service21 min14424c97
Sat 27 Sep 20255:38 pmTraffic and crashes8 min651e9932
Sat 27 Sep 20256:20 pmCall for service21 min4d2f9a38
Sat 27 Sep 20257:31 pmCall for service7 mina1c5b764
Sat 27 Sep 20258:55 pmCall for service9 min8d5fcfaa
Sat 27 Sep 20259:46 pmOther16 minea00eea0
Sat 27 Sep 202510:08 pmCall for service8 mindd30fe45
Sat 27 Sep 202510:34 pmOther10 mine811edb5
Sat 27 Sep 202511:19 pmOther7 mina582efa2
Sat 27 Sep 202511:47 pmCall for service1 min 43 sa3818ad5
Sun 28 Sep 202512:32 amCall for service2 min66cb4723
Sun 28 Sep 202512:56 amOther14 mind52ae4cf
Sun 28 Sep 20251:27 amCall for service13 min253b61de
Mon 29 Sep 20253:27 pmCall for service20 minc10cc065
Tue 30 Sep 20258:20 amCall for service9 min309f195e
Tue 30 Sep 202510:13 amCall for service11 min03a62c85
Tue 30 Sep 202511:52 amTraining and testing4 minc44aa40f
Tue 30 Sep 20252:44 pmOther6 min11510ed6

All 102 flights in September 2025. 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, takeoff to landing.
  • 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 fixed list of terms; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are shown on the agency's own local clock.
  • Boundary. "Downtown" is a neighborhood polygon from Olmsted County GIS (Neighborhood Associations), licence "NOASSERTION". Boundary licence unconfirmed: the boundary is shown for orientation only.
  • A flight counts for this area when its path crosses the boundary; only the part inside is drawn.

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