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Rochester, Minnesota

Folwell, May 2026

A neighborhood page. 18 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in May 2026.

18

drone flights crossed Folwell.

18

of them in May 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Folwell 18 times between 1 May 2026 and 29 May 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 May 2026.

18 of the 18 drawable flights that crossed the area in May 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

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

11% 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 18 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service44%
  2. Events28%
  3. Training and testing17%
  4. Search11%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, May 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 1 May 20261:27 pmSearch13 min80138254
Fri 1 May 20262:46 pmSearch8 minb13862ba
Fri 1 May 202611:08 pmCall for service12 mina6647537
Sat 2 May 20265:47 pmCall for service10 mine4fbbb95
Wed 6 May 20261:56 pmCall for service14 minaefaed5e
Wed 6 May 20268:24 pmCall for service15 min537e8960
Fri 8 May 20262:21 pmTraining and testing9 min10e7f416
Wed 13 May 202611:11 amTraining and testing9 minc4e69f8d
Fri 15 May 20265:40 pmCall for service9 mind43ae8a4
Sat 16 May 20261:56 pmEvents15 mincfa77d26
Sat 16 May 202610:38 pmCall for service15 min26a88439
Tue 19 May 20263:02 pmCall for service15 min43065c55
Wed 20 May 202610:23 amEvents13 min1a971338
Fri 22 May 20262:28 pmTraining and testing10 min54cd1319
Sat 23 May 20267:23 pmEvents15 minf0d3f8b8
Tue 26 May 20267:56 amEvents10 minb5086b51
Thu 28 May 20269:49 pmEvents6 min7f10d467
Fri 29 May 20268:23 pmCall for service16 min423ad4fc

All 18 flights in May 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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