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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, November 2025

A neighborhood page. 8 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in November 2025.

8

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

8

of them in November 2025.

16 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 8 times between 4 November 2025 and 28 November 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 28 November 2025.

8 of the 8 drawable flights that crossed the area in November 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

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

12% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CST).

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 8 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service75%
  2. Other12%
  3. Events12%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, November 2025

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 4 Nov 20256:25 pmCall for service24 min368bea79
Fri 7 Nov 20258:34 amCall for service19 min38b3de51
Fri 7 Nov 20258:49 pmCall for service12 min376b9086
Thu 13 Nov 20258:59 pmOther16 min92b95b03
Fri 21 Nov 202511:09 amCall for service15 mind63ceb8e
Fri 21 Nov 202510:12 pmEvents12 minee24710e
Fri 28 Nov 20254:51 pmCall for service19 min8566bb34
Fri 28 Nov 20259:38 pmCall for service13 minf7d02dbf

All 8 flights in November 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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