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Rochester, Minnesota

Washington, October 2025

A neighborhood page. 12 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in October 2025.

12

drone flights crossed Washington.

12

of them in October 2025.

13 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Washington 12 times between 8 October 2025 and 31 October 2025, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 31 October 2025.

12 of the 12 drawable flights that crossed the area in October 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.
WashingtonOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

25% 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 12 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service50%
  2. Other25%
  3. Events17%
  4. Training and testing8%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, October 2025

DateTakeoff (CDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Wed 8 Oct 20259:38 amCall for service13 min12ef6a50
Wed 8 Oct 20259:51 amCall for service19 min12869ab4
Fri 10 Oct 20259:21 pmEvents12 min16996c54
Tue 14 Oct 20251:45 amOther16 min0762470d
Tue 14 Oct 20253:44 pmTraining and testing13 min775227a0
Thu 16 Oct 20257:30 pmOther17 min40368dfc
Thu 16 Oct 20259:40 pmCall for service17 mine2e6cf88
Fri 17 Oct 20258:59 amEvents10 min69fbe27e
Sat 25 Oct 20252:09 amOther14 min9793d492
Thu 30 Oct 20254:17 pmCall for service13 min4bdb783b
Fri 31 Oct 20251:05 amCall for service11 min031a842a
Fri 31 Oct 20259:08 pmCall for service14 minc774e549

All 12 flights in October 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. "Washington" 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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