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Rochester, Minnesota

Folwell, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 16 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

16

drone flights crossed Folwell.

16

of them in September 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Folwell 16 times between 1 September 2026 and 29 September 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 September 2026.

16 of the 16 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.

25% 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 16 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service44%
  2. Events38%
  3. Other12%
  4. Training and testing6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 20265:30 pmEvents8 minca45dcd6
Wed 2 Sep 20268:40 amOther16 min09e89544
Wed 2 Sep 20269:41 amOther7 minc099239f
Thu 3 Sep 20268:13 pmEvents9 min7ae3c6ac
Fri 4 Sep 20262:59 pmCall for service14 min9ee7a0df
Mon 7 Sep 202612:31 amCall for service15 min71eaf2e7
Tue 8 Sep 20268:56 pmCall for service13 min7a754917
Wed 9 Sep 20264:15 pmCall for service19 min694cab28
Thu 10 Sep 20267:34 pmEvents9 minc732ab4a
Tue 15 Sep 20263:02 amEvents12 mina68b990e
Tue 15 Sep 20266:54 amEvents21 mind9db200e
Tue 15 Sep 20269:03 amEvents8 minf466e4f2
Tue 15 Sep 202611:46 amTraining and testing7 min6d3ed64f
Tue 22 Sep 20264:41 amCall for service16 min53915b4f
Fri 25 Sep 202611:11 pmCall for service13 minf06d6ad3
Tue 29 Sep 20266:39 pmCall for service18 min7652ec51

All 16 flights in September 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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