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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, January 2026

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

16

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

16

of them in January 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

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

16 of the 16 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
Historic SouthwestOne 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 (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 16 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service56%
  2. Events31%
  3. Training and testing6%
  4. Traffic and crashes6%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Jan 202612:44 amCall for service12 minbb017b33
Mon 5 Jan 20263:05 pmTraining and testing16 min44d8eef9
Thu 8 Jan 20261:10 pmEvents20 minf2200670
Fri 9 Jan 202610:16 pmCall for service19 minae99dece
Sat 10 Jan 20261:23 amEvents18 minfbcbd77a
Sat 10 Jan 20264:13 pmCall for service3 mind95c6ba8
Wed 14 Jan 20267:45 amCall for service16 min6ad1cedf
Tue 20 Jan 20267:51 amTraffic and crashes10 mincf38bfed
Thu 22 Jan 20269:30 amCall for service3 mine46b7040
Fri 23 Jan 20267:26 pmCall for service14 min19cd1acc
Sat 24 Jan 20264:00 amCall for service11 min3b275184
Wed 28 Jan 20265:26 pmCall for service15 min2969bb22
Wed 28 Jan 20266:10 pmCall for service13 mincc018e59
Thu 29 Jan 20267:22 amEvents15 min74ee7461
Thu 29 Jan 202610:53 amEvents7 min892775d8
Thu 29 Jan 202612:28 pmEvents13 minfbccd0d0

All 16 flights in January 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. "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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