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Rochester, Minnesota

Washington, January 2026

A neighborhood page. 6 of the 3,580 flights in Rochester Police Department's record crossed this area in January 2026.

6

drone flights crossed Washington.

6

of them in January 2026.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Police drones crossed Washington 6 times between 5 January 2026 and 25 January 2026, by Rochester Police Department's published record. The most recent was on 25 January 2026.

6 of the 6 drawable flights that crossed the area in January 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.
WashingtonOne flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

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

17% 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 6 flights that crossed this area.

  1. Call for service50%
  2. Events33%
  3. Other17%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time.

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Flight list, January 2026

DateTakeoff (CST)PurposeAirborneFlight
Mon 5 Jan 20261:52 pmCall for service16 min56e32a4f
Fri 9 Jan 20269:17 pmEvents11 min30b18bf2
Sun 11 Jan 20269:22 pmEvents10 minafd3d297
Wed 14 Jan 20269:36 pmOther15 min2da8392f
Wed 14 Jan 202611:18 pmCall for service14 min6b9787d9
Sun 25 Jan 20268:31 pmCall for service8 minc454501a

All 6 flights in January 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. "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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