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Rochester, Minnesota

Homestead, October 2025

A neighborhood page. 9 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

9

drone flights crossed Homestead.

9

of them in October 2025.

15 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Homestead 9 times between 2 October 2025 and 25 October 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 25 October 2025.

9 of the 9 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.
HomesteadOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

56% 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 9 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service56%
  2. Events22%
  3. Traffic and crashes11%
  4. Other11%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 2 Oct 20257:28 pmTraffic and crashes15 min28602167
Fri 3 Oct 20258:48 pmCall for service16 mina76aab07
Fri 10 Oct 20257:23 pmEvents15 min771de4a2
Tue 14 Oct 20253:09 pmEvents7 mind72700f1
Mon 20 Oct 20252:10 amCall for service13 min1c25da80
Mon 20 Oct 202510:15 pmOther13 minb619b55c
Fri 24 Oct 202510:29 pmCall for service19 min67e0b989
Fri 24 Oct 202511:23 pmCall for service19 mincd4037e5
Sat 25 Oct 202512:02 amCall for service13 min961e7f5a

All 9 flights in October 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. "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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