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Rochester, Minnesota

Lowertown, February 2026Boundary licence unconfirmed

A neighborhood page. 20 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in February 2026.

20

drone flights crossed Lowertown.

20

of them in February 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Lowertown 20 times between 2 February 2026 and 27 February 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 27 February 2026.

20 of the 20 drawable flights that crossed the area in February 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.
LowertownOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

20% 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 20 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Events35%
  2. Call for service25%
  3. Other15%
  4. Search10%
  5. Training and testing10%
  6. Traffic and crashes5%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, February 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 2 Feb 202610:54 amEvents14 min13fec01d
Fri 6 Feb 20269:39 pmEvents6 min39e1ad25
Fri 6 Feb 202610:14 pmSearch14 minc491bb35
Mon 9 Feb 20262:01 pmCall for service8 minf6cdeb16
Tue 10 Feb 20264:55 pmEvents13 mina499fc79
Fri 13 Feb 20261:00 pmTraffic and crashes7 min025d27b9
Fri 13 Feb 20266:45 pmEvents8 min8d1debe0
Sun 15 Feb 20269:14 pmEvents14 mincf521d91
Tue 17 Feb 20267:34 amOther14 min97a2af11
Tue 17 Feb 20264:46 pmOther12 min1a1009ad
Thu 19 Feb 20267:44 amCall for service15 min94159065
Fri 20 Feb 202612:49 pmSearch18 mind8fb5b85
Fri 20 Feb 202610:57 pmEvents13 minff1e0645
Sat 21 Feb 202612:38 amOther18 minc195c29c
Sat 21 Feb 202611:49 pmEvents4 min56706c1e
Wed 25 Feb 20262:24 pmTraining and testing6 minf49bd38d
Wed 25 Feb 20262:52 pmTraining and testing6 min3df1afc4
Wed 25 Feb 20269:26 pmCall for service11 minf13791b6
Thu 26 Feb 20262:38 pmCall for service11 minbbf91021
Fri 27 Feb 202612:34 pmCall for service20 min7fc02fb7

All 20 flights in February 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. "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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