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Rochester, Minnesota

East Side, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 44 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

44

drone flights crossed East Side.

44

of them in August 2026.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed East Side 44 times between 1 August 2026 and 30 August 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 August 2026.

44 of the 44 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.
East SideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

25% 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 44 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service68%
  2. Events20%
  3. Training and testing7%
  4. Traffic and crashes2%
  5. Not stated2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 20262:02 amEvents10 mine4ac8965
Sat 1 Aug 20265:41 pmCall for service3 min881962a9
Sat 1 Aug 20265:51 pmCall for service10 mincba7a6c2
Sat 1 Aug 202611:09 pmCall for service8 min29ff944a
Sun 2 Aug 202612:55 amCall for service12 minabc96eca
Mon 3 Aug 202612:00 pmTraining and testing13 mind72c565b
Mon 3 Aug 20261:42 pmCall for service11 minc8c6720c
Mon 3 Aug 20263:01 pmCall for service22 min5f6a8e28
Tue 4 Aug 20261:36 pmCall for service19 min567d90e8
Wed 5 Aug 20269:04 amEvents8 min9bd41cae
Wed 5 Aug 202611:50 amTraining and testing7 min00436682
Wed 5 Aug 202612:57 pmCall for service9 minfff9a26f
Thu 6 Aug 20268:43 amCall for service15 minb1964bf0
Fri 7 Aug 202611:35 amEvents10 minfb09d47d
Sun 9 Aug 20262:15 pmCall for service6 min00d8b7c7
Mon 10 Aug 20262:05 amCall for service21 min885976db
Tue 11 Aug 20265:37 pmEvents12 min5ebba4a4
Wed 12 Aug 202611:55 amEvents17 min23d3f2c3
Wed 12 Aug 20262:34 pmCall for service12 min70c9caaf
Wed 12 Aug 20263:29 pmTraffic and crashes7 min128e8a48
Fri 14 Aug 20262:49 pmCall for service11 min2968d35c
Fri 14 Aug 20264:22 pmCall for service2 min7fd1e137
Fri 14 Aug 20269:30 pmCall for service18 min86a78c40
Sat 15 Aug 202610:00 amCall for service20 min91b569cd
Sat 15 Aug 20263:12 pmCall for service19 min9350c758
Wed 19 Aug 202610:49 amEvents8 min8e51392f
Wed 19 Aug 202610:05 pmCall for service11 min030de416
Fri 21 Aug 20266:43 pmCall for service13 mind44ca9a1
Sat 22 Aug 20263:07 amCall for service7 mind2ed830d
Sat 22 Aug 202610:20 pmEvents15 minb6f943b2
Mon 24 Aug 20268:09 pmCall for service8 min2f5521e9
Tue 25 Aug 20261:58 amCall for service13 min34b2332d
Tue 25 Aug 20269:48 pmTraining and testing3 minee3d168a
Thu 27 Aug 20261:46 pmCall for service9 min6d3ecef2
Thu 27 Aug 20267:46 pmCall for service17 min217eef4e
Thu 27 Aug 20269:23 pmCall for service15 mind6ff4a40
Fri 28 Aug 20267:10 pmCall for service14 min49c94073
Fri 28 Aug 20267:32 pmCall for service8 mina261584e
Fri 28 Aug 20268:30 pmCall for service9 min0e867188
Fri 28 Aug 20268:43 pmCall for service8 minc76e9bff
Fri 28 Aug 20269:09 pmEvents9 minde7fe1fd
Fri 28 Aug 202611:34 pmCall for service13 min135a6286
Sat 29 Aug 202610:22 pmNot stated10 min382e36b2
Sun 30 Aug 202610:53 pmEvents14 min32e91edd

All 44 flights in August 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. "East Side" 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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