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Rochester, Minnesota

Folwell, February 2026

A neighborhood page. 9 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

9

drone flights crossed Folwell.

9

of them in February 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Folwell 9 times between 2 February 2026 and 23 February 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 23 February 2026.

9 of the 9 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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.
FolwellOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

0% 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 9 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events22%
  2. Call for service22%
  3. Search22%
  4. Other22%
  5. Traffic and crashes11%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 2 Feb 20268:19 amEvents13 min9be547a2
Mon 2 Feb 202610:34 amEvents5 min9a7b19d4
Mon 2 Feb 202611:43 amCall for service10 min8066745b
Thu 5 Feb 20269:37 amSearch13 mina4210f31
Sat 7 Feb 20267:13 pmOther12 minebc2bfda
Fri 13 Feb 20264:37 pmSearch12 min805f35f5
Tue 17 Feb 20264:46 pmOther12 min1a1009ad
Thu 19 Feb 20269:52 amTraffic and crashes14 min3bdc0a76
Mon 23 Feb 202611:03 amCall for service9 min0c0652ec

All 9 flights in February 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. "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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