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Rochester, Minnesota

Sunnyside, December 2025

A neighborhood page. 13 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in December 2025.

13

drone flights crossed Sunnyside.

13

of them in December 2025.

9 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunnyside 13 times between 3 December 2025 and 31 December 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 December 2025.

13 of the 13 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.
SunnysideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

15% 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 13 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service77%
  2. Other15%
  3. Search8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, December 2025

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 3 Dec 20255:31 pmCall for service12 mind996a12b
Wed 3 Dec 202510:16 pmCall for service7 mind06a935e
Thu 4 Dec 20251:42 pmCall for service8 mind7bc67e5
Thu 4 Dec 20258:28 pmCall for service7 min200d41b1
Fri 5 Dec 20253:59 pmSearch11 min9553af12
Thu 11 Dec 20259:26 pmCall for service9 min8a9f7468
Fri 12 Dec 202511:45 amCall for service9 min07884ce7
Fri 12 Dec 20254:30 pmOther4 min9a536eb2
Mon 15 Dec 20252:14 amCall for service9 min84d66fca
Wed 17 Dec 20254:02 pmCall for service12 minb71cae88
Fri 19 Dec 20257:38 amCall for service14 min5dfdb475
Wed 24 Dec 202510:38 amOther16 min8b18ce67
Wed 31 Dec 20255:43 pmCall for service18 mina7476941

All 13 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. "Sunnyside" 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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