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Rochester, Minnesota

Historic Southwest, August 2026

A neighborhood page. 35 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in August 2026.

35

drone flights crossed Historic Southwest.

35

of them in August 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Historic Southwest 35 times between 1 August 2026 and 29 August 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 August 2026.

35 of the 35 drawable flights that crossed the area in August 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.

9% 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 35 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service66%
  2. Events26%
  3. Traffic and crashes3%
  4. Training and testing3%
  5. Other3%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, August 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 1 Aug 20268:45 pmCall for service16 min881b40fb
Wed 5 Aug 20265:33 pmCall for service15 min4d5f13ed
Thu 6 Aug 20269:50 amCall for service13 mineb800e9b
Sun 9 Aug 20268:46 pmCall for service14 min65f7b78f
Mon 10 Aug 20269:10 amCall for service6 min47d5f460
Tue 11 Aug 202612:35 pmEvents8 minf2c6d080
Tue 11 Aug 20261:23 pmCall for service13 min733ab2e0
Thu 13 Aug 20268:21 amEvents19 min0455517b
Thu 13 Aug 20269:14 amEvents16 min2fa7b92d
Thu 13 Aug 202611:08 amEvents11 min2e5b357e
Thu 13 Aug 202611:24 amCall for service6 minfe287e1c
Fri 14 Aug 20266:29 pmCall for service7 mind85c90bb
Fri 14 Aug 202610:59 pmCall for service13 minb04c8540
Tue 18 Aug 20265:04 pmCall for service12 mind64b67f5
Tue 18 Aug 20265:53 pmCall for service8 mindab8a18b
Tue 18 Aug 20269:30 pmCall for service11 minbb121877
Wed 19 Aug 202610:21 amTraffic and crashes7 mine23662fa
Wed 19 Aug 20263:58 pmCall for service17 min5b21cb82
Wed 19 Aug 20265:32 pmCall for service21 minf94d624d
Wed 19 Aug 20269:14 pmCall for service12 min657a1e29
Thu 20 Aug 202611:40 amEvents12 min6f4b9ac8
Thu 20 Aug 20266:53 pmCall for service18 min98a555a5
Thu 20 Aug 20267:59 pmCall for service18 min9d0c7077
Sat 22 Aug 20266:13 amCall for service9 mind59f0428
Sat 22 Aug 20269:16 pmCall for service15 min083389fe
Sat 22 Aug 202610:20 pmEvents15 minb6f943b2
Mon 24 Aug 20268:18 amTraining and testing14 min4eba5396
Mon 24 Aug 20269:37 pmCall for service8 mine0db917f
Wed 26 Aug 20267:23 pmCall for service10 mine60f631e
Wed 26 Aug 20269:56 pmOther7 minfff70259
Thu 27 Aug 20268:36 amEvents8 min755cfce2
Thu 27 Aug 202612:20 pmEvents6 minfa085873
Fri 28 Aug 20263:43 pmCall for service7 min654330dc
Fri 28 Aug 20265:28 pmEvents15 minfec7c5e9
Sat 29 Aug 20262:29 amCall for service12 mina17e00a2

All 35 flights in August 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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