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Rochester, Minnesota

LowertownBoundary license unconfirmed, not for publication

A neighborhood page. 262 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area.

262

drone flights crossed Lowertown.

4

of them in October 2026.

10 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lowertown 262 times between 11 September 2025 and 5 October 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 5 October 2026.

4 of the 4 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 2026. The outlined area is the neighborhood. Paths run beyond it because each whole flight is drawn, minus its first and last 200 m.
LowertownOne flight; takeoff and landing removed

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

20% of them took off between 10 pm and 6 am (CDT).

0 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

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

  1. 14
  2. 30
  3. 12
  4. 7
  5. 9
  6. 20
  7. 6
  8. 17
  9. 39
  10. 31
  11. 24
  12. 24
  13. 25
  14. 4
Sep 25Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose, grouped into classes, as a share of the 262 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service54%
  2. Events21%
  3. Training and testing11%
  4. Other6%
  5. Search5%
  6. Traffic and crashes2%
  7. Not stated1%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 1 Oct 20264:57 pmCall for service23 mina25abc0b
Thu 1 Oct 20268:30 pmEvents10 min12b691c9
Fri 2 Oct 20268:07 pmCall for service8 min3b95fd9a
Mon 5 Oct 20267:37 pmCall for service9 mind1f80ab5

All 4 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Boundary. "Lowertown" is a neighborhood polygon from Olmsted County GIS (Neighborhood Associations), licence recorded as "NOASSERTION", in the place layer file for Rochester. Boundary license unconfirmed, not for publication: ADR 0003 bars paging a place whose licence is unknown or share-alike; this page exists only in the local demo.
  • A flight counts for this area when its simplified path intersects the polygon (shapely). The join uses the unclipped line; only the clipped line is drawn.

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