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Rochester, Minnesota

Folwell, July 2026

A neighborhood page. 11 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in July 2026.

11

drone flights crossed Folwell.

11

of them in July 2026.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Folwell 11 times between 1 July 2026 and 28 July 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 July 2026.

11 of the 11 drawable flights that crossed the area in July 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

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

27% 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 11 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service82%
  2. Events9%
  3. Search9%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, July 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 1 Jul 20266:58 pmCall for service9 mine681926d
Thu 2 Jul 202610:58 pmCall for service15 min74ea83c0
Fri 3 Jul 20263:06 pmCall for service13 mine0e10448
Wed 8 Jul 202612:37 pmCall for service11 min1c8a2918
Fri 17 Jul 202610:43 pmCall for service16 min5e95d579
Wed 22 Jul 20268:05 pmCall for service15 min635479aa
Wed 22 Jul 202610:45 pmCall for service21 min825738c7
Fri 24 Jul 20261:51 pmEvents15 minad9da935
Fri 24 Jul 20266:28 pmCall for service11 min0c4b28a5
Sat 25 Jul 202612:23 pmSearch16 minac6b5c1c
Tue 28 Jul 20269:28 amCall for service11 minc5a213d2

All 11 flights in July 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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