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Rochester, Minnesota

Folwell, April 2026

A neighborhood page. 7 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in April 2026.

7

drone flights crossed Folwell.

7

of them in April 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Folwell 7 times between 1 April 2026 and 29 April 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 April 2026.

7 of the 7 drawable flights that crossed the area in April 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.

14% 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 7 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service71%
  2. Events29%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, April 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Apr 202610:33 amCall for service12 min0b0eec4b
Sat 4 Apr 202612:36 pmCall for service14 min0fc1fa6f
Thu 9 Apr 20266:08 amEvents12 min724593d3
Thu 16 Apr 202610:00 amCall for service12 min7bf874ef
Fri 24 Apr 20267:56 pmCall for service13 min02e2377c
Sun 26 Apr 202610:37 pmCall for service16 min342a9342
Wed 29 Apr 20268:02 pmEvents15 mindcc43f91

All 7 flights in April 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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