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Rochester, Minnesota

Downtown, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 102 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

102

drone flights crossed Downtown.

102

of them in January 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Downtown 102 times between 1 January 2026 and 31 January 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 January 2026.

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

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

19% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 service58%
  2. Events24%
  3. Training and testing14%
  4. Search2%
  5. Other2%
  6. Traffic and crashes1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Jan 202612:04 amCall for service8 min1e8d21b4
Thu 1 Jan 202612:21 amCall for service6 mina65c4647
Thu 1 Jan 202612:44 amCall for service12 minbb017b33
Thu 1 Jan 20261:27 amCall for service7 min1e662a5f
Thu 1 Jan 20262:59 pmCall for service10 min6d46fe7b
Thu 1 Jan 20263:47 pmCall for service17 min5ccc6325
Thu 1 Jan 20265:37 pmEvents6 min47e32ff9
Thu 1 Jan 20266:41 pmCall for service7 min50f813ce
Thu 1 Jan 20266:57 pmCall for service10 min2ee0b6eb
Thu 1 Jan 20269:00 pmEvents9 mind943c310
Thu 1 Jan 202610:37 pmCall for service19 minc8c11762
Thu 1 Jan 202611:59 pmCall for service9 mince8da491
Fri 2 Jan 20265:23 amCall for service7 min12784a08
Fri 2 Jan 20264:25 pmCall for service5 min55fc907f
Fri 2 Jan 20268:00 pmTraining and testing2 mind664d7ed
Mon 5 Jan 20266:59 amEvents20 min2a3f8714
Mon 5 Jan 202610:25 amCall for service20 mindf0e1ad8
Mon 5 Jan 20261:42 pmCall for service2 min44896977
Mon 5 Jan 20261:52 pmCall for service16 min56e32a4f
Mon 5 Jan 20262:45 pmCall for service8 min7a5d8b10
Mon 5 Jan 20263:05 pmTraining and testing16 min44d8eef9
Tue 6 Jan 20266:36 amEvents15 mine46d0256
Wed 7 Jan 20261:36 pmEvents14 minab6e7b7e
Wed 7 Jan 20262:20 pmCall for service11 min282744ca
Thu 8 Jan 20269:08 amCall for service19 mincc6f4fb2
Thu 8 Jan 202612:18 pmCall for service19 minf07e761d
Thu 8 Jan 20261:10 pmEvents20 minf2200670
Thu 8 Jan 20262:54 pmCall for service12 mind8895ad7
Thu 8 Jan 20269:02 pmCall for service10 mina13fa3c9
Thu 8 Jan 202610:34 pmCall for service6 min8b012661
Thu 8 Jan 202610:56 pmCall for service3 min712f3ffa
Fri 9 Jan 202610:37 amCall for service6 minb78583dd
Fri 9 Jan 202611:02 amEvents7 minffbc5be5
Fri 9 Jan 20262:35 pmCall for service13 minb6e6c8b1
Fri 9 Jan 20263:11 pmCall for service10 min69aaaebd
Fri 9 Jan 20266:59 pmTraining and testing3 min580a9f7a
Fri 9 Jan 20267:28 pmEvents13 min240c105e
Fri 9 Jan 20268:20 pmSearch18 minf4653e63
Fri 9 Jan 20269:31 pmCall for service8 min57b6cbae
Fri 9 Jan 202610:16 pmCall for service19 minae99dece
Fri 9 Jan 202611:13 pmCall for service10 min1e2b42c7
Sat 10 Jan 20261:23 amEvents18 minfbcbd77a
Sat 10 Jan 20264:13 pmCall for service3 mind95c6ba8
Sun 11 Jan 20266:49 pmCall for service9 min27308d96
Sun 11 Jan 20267:57 pmEvents9 min4313a620
Sun 11 Jan 20268:33 pmCall for service5 min91545bc7
Sun 11 Jan 20269:00 pmEvents4 minebd7b134
Sun 11 Jan 20269:12 pmEvents13 minb30b5a06
Sun 11 Jan 202610:28 pmTraining and testing1 min 16 s6b740be9
Tue 13 Jan 20267:44 amCall for service8 min617d6d9d
Tue 13 Jan 20268:30 amCall for service14 mina2bec5fe
Tue 13 Jan 202610:36 amCall for service12 minc9b71489
Tue 13 Jan 20262:49 pmTraining and testing2 mine9a0c977
Tue 13 Jan 20268:07 pmTraining and testing4 minb914e157
Tue 13 Jan 20268:37 pmEvents9 min423c267b
Wed 14 Jan 20267:45 amCall for service16 min6ad1cedf
Wed 14 Jan 20262:22 pmTraining and testing9 minb964be70
Wed 14 Jan 20263:03 pmTraining and testing14 min2fe085c0
Wed 14 Jan 20266:55 pmOther18 minad0bf83f
Wed 14 Jan 20268:10 pmCall for service7 min1f146033
Wed 14 Jan 20269:00 pmCall for service2 min9774b401
Wed 14 Jan 20269:11 pmCall for service11 mine54ac2c8
Wed 14 Jan 20269:24 pmOther11 min653ee5a3
Thu 15 Jan 202610:19 amEvents3 min2129879f
Thu 15 Jan 202610:37 amCall for service10 min19516a3c
Thu 15 Jan 202612:16 pmTraining and testing11 min10f214c7
Mon 19 Jan 202611:38 amCall for service12 min35ecc083
Tue 20 Jan 20267:51 amTraffic and crashes10 mincf38bfed
Tue 20 Jan 20267:31 pmCall for service4 minb14016c7
Thu 22 Jan 20269:30 amCall for service3 mine46b7040
Fri 23 Jan 20267:26 pmCall for service14 min19cd1acc
Fri 23 Jan 20269:08 pmCall for service8 min145a1bb5
Fri 23 Jan 20269:37 pmCall for service9 min2d926891
Sat 24 Jan 20264:00 amCall for service11 min3b275184
Sun 25 Jan 20267:15 pmCall for service9 min866827b4
Sun 25 Jan 20268:31 pmCall for service8 minc454501a
Sun 25 Jan 20269:23 pmCall for service9 min334c9e25
Sun 25 Jan 20269:36 pmCall for service0 s94a37086
Wed 28 Jan 20269:55 amTraining and testing3 minaae31ab9
Wed 28 Jan 202612:24 pmEvents18 min7bf63aa1
Wed 28 Jan 202612:59 pmEvents10 mind546a331
Wed 28 Jan 20265:26 pmCall for service15 min2969bb22
Wed 28 Jan 20266:10 pmCall for service13 mincc018e59
Thu 29 Jan 20267:22 amEvents15 min74ee7461
Thu 29 Jan 202610:53 amEvents7 min892775d8
Thu 29 Jan 202612:28 pmEvents13 minfbccd0d0
Thu 29 Jan 20262:52 pmTraining and testing8 min0c413858
Thu 29 Jan 20264:00 pmTraining and testing5 minae6bcaf4
Thu 29 Jan 20264:40 pmTraining and testing3 min1b2fe245
Fri 30 Jan 202612:29 pmEvents20 mine9eaa63e
Fri 30 Jan 20261:17 pmEvents14 min183f213a
Fri 30 Jan 20265:40 pmEvents8 min6e1223cb
Fri 30 Jan 20268:12 pmCall for service11 min3a9c6da3
Fri 30 Jan 20269:29 pmCall for service13 mine4dd9936
Fri 30 Jan 202610:09 pmSearch14 min5bfbd620
Fri 30 Jan 202611:34 pmCall for service9 minecb8739e
Sat 31 Jan 20268:10 pmTraining and testing3 mind3f5e80a
Sat 31 Jan 20268:21 pmEvents14 minc3201d2e
Sat 31 Jan 20269:20 pmCall for service14 min0ad02d5e
Sat 31 Jan 202610:05 pmEvents12 min327d5e6a
Sat 31 Jan 202611:40 pmCall for service8 min85139c11
Sat 31 Jan 202611:55 pmCall for service11 min4bfd2ed2

All 102 flights in January 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, 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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