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Rochester, Minnesota

Folwell, October 2025

A neighborhood page. 5 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

5

drone flights crossed Folwell.

5

of them in October 2025.

17 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Folwell 5 times between 2 October 2025 and 30 October 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2025.

5 of the 5 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.
FolwellOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

40% 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 5 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service60%
  2. Training and testing20%
  3. Events20%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Oct 20254:00 pmCall for service17 min200a0bd2
Tue 7 Oct 202512:18 pmTraining and testing9 min1cf8d1bc
Mon 13 Oct 20251:05 amCall for service17 mindbeb4b3e
Sat 18 Oct 20251:42 amEvents12 minb93dc5d4
Thu 30 Oct 20257:54 pmCall for service18 min1101ea12

All 5 flights in October 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. "Folwell" 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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