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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, February 2026

A neighborhood page. 37 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

37

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

37

of them in February 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 37 times between 2 February 2026 and 27 February 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 February 2026.

37 of the 37 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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

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

14% 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 37 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service62%
  2. Events14%
  3. Other8%
  4. Training and testing5%
  5. Search5%
  6. Traffic and crashes5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 2 Feb 20266:29 amEvents19 minb5d0520e
Mon 2 Feb 20268:19 amEvents13 min9be547a2
Mon 2 Feb 202610:34 amEvents5 min9a7b19d4
Mon 2 Feb 202611:19 amCall for service7 min3af59750
Mon 2 Feb 202611:43 amCall for service10 min8066745b
Mon 2 Feb 20263:15 pmCall for service9 min918a1cfe
Tue 3 Feb 20266:33 amEvents10 min34cf5a5a
Wed 4 Feb 20268:12 amCall for service11 min58409094
Thu 5 Feb 20267:44 amCall for service16 minba1b593e
Thu 5 Feb 20268:52 amTraining and testing4 min9dddf455
Thu 5 Feb 20268:57 amTraining and testing6 min58d2ec1d
Thu 5 Feb 20269:09 amCall for service8 min65143e71
Thu 5 Feb 20269:37 amSearch13 mina4210f31
Fri 6 Feb 20264:46 pmCall for service8 minf8cbe202
Fri 6 Feb 20267:27 pmCall for service9 min3bf7cf94
Sat 7 Feb 20267:13 pmOther12 minebc2bfda
Fri 13 Feb 20264:37 pmSearch12 min805f35f5
Fri 13 Feb 20269:07 pmCall for service10 min16ab0355
Sun 15 Feb 202611:49 pmCall for service17 min1f6363a4
Mon 16 Feb 20261:47 amCall for service9 min4cf49bc8
Tue 17 Feb 20267:34 amOther14 min97a2af11
Tue 17 Feb 202612:12 pmCall for service10 min468f3d5b
Tue 17 Feb 20264:46 pmOther12 min1a1009ad
Thu 19 Feb 20267:44 amCall for service15 min94159065
Thu 19 Feb 20269:52 amTraffic and crashes14 min3bdc0a76
Sat 21 Feb 20262:15 amEvents5 min5810fe3a
Sun 22 Feb 202610:42 amCall for service14 min25586a7c
Mon 23 Feb 202611:03 amCall for service9 min0c0652ec
Tue 24 Feb 20267:55 pmCall for service15 min5d81db60
Tue 24 Feb 20269:12 pmCall for service9 minc9422243
Wed 25 Feb 20267:09 pmCall for service17 mindb498f2d
Thu 26 Feb 20262:09 pmCall for service6 minfc0005fd
Thu 26 Feb 202611:08 pmCall for service10 min75d08375
Fri 27 Feb 20266:23 pmTraffic and crashes8 min64318f30
Fri 27 Feb 20266:54 pmCall for service6 min60a4cd23
Fri 27 Feb 20269:15 pmCall for service10 minac03381e
Fri 27 Feb 202611:24 pmCall for service8 min820de0af

All 37 flights in February 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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