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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, October 2025

A neighborhood page. 22 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

22

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

22

of them in October 2025.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 22 times between 2 October 2025 and 30 October 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 October 2025.

22 of the 22 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2025. 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.
Historic SouthwestOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

5 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 22 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service59%
  2. Events18%
  3. Training and testing14%
  4. Other9%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Oct 202511:13 amCall for service7 min57c953c8
Thu 2 Oct 20254:00 pmCall for service17 min200a0bd2
Thu 2 Oct 20256:28 pmCall for service15 minca1f18c6
Fri 3 Oct 20252:02 amCall for service11 minc7f6c5c6
Fri 3 Oct 20253:44 pmCall for service9 min42438d9f
Fri 3 Oct 20256:19 pmCall for service17 min0ad1c034
Fri 3 Oct 20258:12 pmEvents6 min62cbbaad
Fri 3 Oct 20259:22 pmCall for service10 minfb3055f7
Sun 5 Oct 20258:48 amCall for service6 minc6f3522d
Tue 7 Oct 20258:29 amTraining and testing3 min126594e9
Tue 7 Oct 202512:04 pmCall for service9 min6cd75223
Tue 7 Oct 202512:18 pmTraining and testing9 min1cf8d1bc
Thu 9 Oct 20258:05 pmOther14 min8491f9f7
Fri 10 Oct 20258:21 pmEvents7 min00dfd236
Sun 12 Oct 20252:00 amCall for service16 min694d9b20
Mon 13 Oct 20251:05 amCall for service17 mindbeb4b3e
Tue 14 Oct 20256:57 amTraining and testing17 minc626acaf
Sat 18 Oct 202512:12 amOther12 min53611b24
Sat 18 Oct 20251:42 amEvents12 minb93dc5d4
Sun 19 Oct 20253:53 amCall for service18 min9b3b1fed
Thu 23 Oct 20253:44 pmEvents19 min0a0b4a2b
Thu 30 Oct 20257:54 pmCall for service18 min1101ea12

All 22 flights in October 2025. 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. "Historic Southwest" 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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