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Rochester, Minnesota

Sunnyside, September 2026

A neighborhood page. 13 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in September 2026.

13

drone flights crossed Sunnyside.

13

of them in September 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Sunnyside 13 times between 1 September 2026 and 29 September 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 29 September 2026.

13 of the 13 drawable flights that crossed the area in September 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.
SunnysideOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

8% 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 13 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service77%
  2. Traffic and crashes8%
  3. Other8%
  4. Events8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, September 2026

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Tue 1 Sep 202612:36 pmTraffic and crashes8 min0a254295
Tue 1 Sep 20264:53 pmCall for service19 min3fb12a2d
Wed 2 Sep 20262:10 pmCall for service16 minaa9ebe47
Sun 6 Sep 20262:13 amCall for service22 min8a3bf73e
Thu 10 Sep 20269:27 amCall for service12 minec909ef8
Sat 12 Sep 20263:24 pmOther16 min0e3b40a5
Sat 12 Sep 20264:14 pmCall for service8 min6ba13bea
Mon 14 Sep 20269:56 pmCall for service6 minf46b71eb
Thu 17 Sep 20261:22 pmCall for service11 mine55afb90
Thu 17 Sep 20264:09 pmEvents16 mind467b555
Tue 22 Sep 20262:39 pmCall for service9 min2661c476
Sat 26 Sep 20268:38 pmCall for service17 minb509feb1
Tue 29 Sep 20265:41 pmCall for service9 min0b3f4568

All 13 flights in September 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. "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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