Soil Dryness and Drought Factor Table
Soil Dryness Index (SDI) and Drought Factor (DF) observations from weather stations across Tasmania.
(Updates around 10am daily)
***** SOIL DRYNESS INDEX ***** for 9am 11 / 10 / 2025
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 1.0 59.2 3.1
Beauty Flat Rd 1.9 44.9 7.6
Bicheno 1.8 64.6 8.5
Bothwell 4.2 68.8 4.9
Bull Bay 5.5 109.5 6.6
Burnie 1.1 7.3 3.4
Bushy Park 7.0 33.9 3.1
Campbell Town 1.0 40.8 2.8
Cape Bruny 2.4 0.0 3.3
Colebrook 1.1 43.3 5.2
Devonport East 1.0 12.6 4.0
Dover 16.8 0.0 0.8
Dunalley (Stroud 3.8 71.3 6.6
Eddystone Pt 6.4 45.1 5.4
Erriba 8.4 0.0 0.6
Fingal 1.1 29.6 2.3
Flinders Is Apt 2.2 19.4 6.2
Friendly Beach 2.2 70.3 7.5
Geeveston 19.7 0.0 0.9
Gladstone 6.6 35.5 4.9
Gray (Dalmayne R 6.6 40.8 2.5
Hamilton 10.8 25.7 2.1
Hartz Mtn 6.2 0.0 0.5
Hastings Chalet 8.9 0.0 1.7
Hobart Apt 5.0 130.6 7.1
Hobart City 10.6 50.5 1.2
Huonville 14.4 8.6 0.6
Judbury 15.6 3.8 0.4
Kennaook/Cape Gr 5.4 0.0 2.5
King Is Ap 2.4 0.3 3.4
Lake Leake 1.2 25.7 4.5
Lake St Clair 7.5 0.0 0.6
Launceston Apt 2.4 20.8 3.5
Launceston Apt 4.0 17.2 4.5
Launceston City 4.0 21.0 4.6
Lewis Hill 3.4 58.1 6.4
Liawenee A.W.S. 5.4 0.0 1.0
Llewellyn 0.8 39.9 3.3
Low Head 13.6 0.0 1.3
Low Rocky Pt 3.8 0.0 1.4
Luncheon Hill 19.8 0.0 0.4
Maatsuyker Is 2.8 0.0 2.8
Marrawah 6.4 0.0 2.2
Mathinna 11.6 0.0 0.5
Maydena 15.3 0.0 0.7
Meander 1.8 0.4 1.3
Melton Mowbray 3.0 69.6 5.9
Moogara 10.6 0.0 1.2
Mt Lloyd 10.6 0.0 1.2
Mt Read 39.2 0.0 0.4
Mt Wellington 1.2 0.0 4.7
New Norfolk 9.9 71.1 1.5
Nugent 8.8 28.1 3.5
Oatlands 0.9 56.8 6.4
Orford 6.2 88.6 5.9
Ouse 13.4 0.0 1.2
Palmers L/Out 8.6 0.0 1.7
Pioneer 4.8 4.2 1.8
Poatina 1.4 4.6 1.9
Port Davey 6.0 0.0 1.3
Pyengana 28.4 0.0 0.2
Rosebery 15.5 0.0 0.6
Ross 1.0 39.7 2.8
Savage River 22.2 0.0 0.3
Scotts Peak 13.4 0.0 0.3
Scottsdale 15.4 0.0 0.3
Sheffield 5.8 0.0 0.9
Smithton 13.0 0.0 1.3
St Marys 2.7 49.6 6.8
Strahan Town 12.4 0.0 1.1
Strathgordon 18.0 0.0 0.5
Swansea 2.5 52.5 4.7
Tarraleah Vill 37.8 0.0 0.3
Tea Tree 9.6 50.1 3.2
Temma 7.2 0.0 1.8
Tooms Lake 0.2 21.0 2.4
Tunnack 1.4 44.0 5.8
Upper Esk 2.0 0.7 0.7
Victoria Valley 3.3 0.0 1.7
Waratah 12.0 0.0 0.6
Warra 48.2 0.0 0.1
Westbury 2.8 0.0 2.6
Wynyard 10.0 0.0 1.2
Zeehan 27.4 0.0 0.1