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Rochester, Minnesota

Homestead

A neighborhood page. 65 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area.

65

drone flights crossed Homestead.

6

of them in September 2026.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Homestead 65 times between 12 September 2025 and 30 September 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 September 2026.

6 of the 6 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.
HomesteadOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

28% 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.

Month by month

Flights that crossed Homestead, per month by takeoff date. Click a month for its own page.

  1. Sep 2025: 3 flights. 3
  2. Oct 2025: 9 flights. 9
  3. Nov 2025: 4 flights. 4
  4. Dec 2025: 5 flights. 5
  5. Jan 2026: 4 flights. 4
  6. Feb 2026: 5 flights. 5
  7. Mar 2026: 2 flights. 2
  8. Apr 2026: 7 flights. 7
  9. May 2026: 7 flights. 7
  10. Jun 2026: 6 flights. 6
  11. Jul 2026: 2 flights. 2
  12. Aug 2026: 5 flights. 5
  13. Sep 2026: 6 flights. 6
Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26

The hatched bar is the current month, still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 65 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service62%
  2. Events25%
  3. Training and testing5%
  4. Other3%
  5. Search3%
  6. Traffic and crashes2%
  7. Not stated2%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Fri 4 Sep 20261:23 pmEvents16 mineb744774
Sun 6 Sep 20262:13 amCall for service22 min8a3bf73e
Thu 10 Sep 202610:18 pmCall for service11 min1d8b7be1
Sat 12 Sep 20265:53 pmCall for service10 mincc75e0fd
Wed 30 Sep 20267:47 pmCall for service16 mine0575014
Wed 30 Sep 202610:22 pmCall for service12 mind7febe39

All 6 flights in September 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. "Homestead" 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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