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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, December 2025

A neighborhood page. 18 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

18

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

18

of them in December 2025.

11 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 18 times between 2 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

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

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

17% 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 18 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service39%
  2. Events28%
  3. Other22%
  4. Traffic and crashes6%
  5. Search6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 2 Dec 20253:49 pmCall for service14 min7bcae446
Tue 2 Dec 20258:31 pmCall for service11 minc26c26ad
Thu 4 Dec 20252:08 pmTraffic and crashes12 min8eaf7230
Thu 4 Dec 20258:06 pmCall for service9 min044aef1b
Sat 6 Dec 20254:57 pmEvents15 min50c87a89
Sat 6 Dec 20255:33 pmEvents19 min0cdb3611
Mon 15 Dec 20258:01 pmEvents8 min93cfb6a1
Tue 16 Dec 202512:40 amCall for service8 min8e2667dc
Tue 16 Dec 20252:17 amEvents16 minfd08838f
Tue 16 Dec 202510:49 pmOther13 mind99cc068
Wed 17 Dec 202511:15 amOther6 min8bfa453a
Wed 17 Dec 202511:29 amOther4 min1af97e0f
Fri 19 Dec 20258:19 amOther12 min3aacd020
Sun 21 Dec 20251:44 pmSearch8 mind4470578
Mon 22 Dec 20257:02 pmCall for service4 min8fbdc113
Wed 24 Dec 20259:25 amCall for service11 min343d6402
Tue 30 Dec 20252:10 pmEvents16 mincb1c554c
Wed 31 Dec 20257:28 pmCall for service8 min5d00a860

All 18 flights in December 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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