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Rochester, Minnesota

Lowertown, December 2025

A neighborhood page. 7 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

7

drone flights crossed Lowertown.

7

of them in December 2025.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lowertown 7 times between 11 December 2025 and 30 December 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 30 December 2025.

7 of the 7 drawable flights that crossed the area in December 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.
LowertownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

29% 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 7 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service71%
  2. Events14%
  3. Training and testing14%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Thu 11 Dec 20256:40 pmEvents16 mineeaecbc6
Sun 14 Dec 20255:10 pmCall for service8 min2f3dece4
Sun 14 Dec 202511:05 pmCall for service8 mindfc8ea37
Fri 19 Dec 20251:23 pmCall for service8 mindbcc37b4
Mon 22 Dec 202511:46 amTraining and testing20 min74a6b651
Tue 23 Dec 202512:25 amCall for service11 minc4f7496a
Tue 30 Dec 20254:13 pmCall for service9 minf2424bcb

All 7 flights in December 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. "Lowertown" 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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