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 03 / 09 / 2026
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 1.0 108.4 9.7
Beauty Flat Rd 1.0 56.5 8.2
Bicheno 1.2 74.5 8.8
Bothwell 3.2 71.9 7.0
Bull Bay 0.0 106.5 9.6
Burnie 12.1 26.4 1.9
Bushy Park 3.4 56.6 8.2
Campbell Town 1.0 94.2 9.4
Cape Bruny 5.6 1.5 2.1
Colebrook 2.3 62.9 8.4
Devonport East 10.8 28.6 2.2
Dover 3.6 30.3 6.8
Dunalley (Stroud 3.4 84.3 8.9
Eddystone Pt 1.6 72.4 8.7
Erriba 7.0 5.8 3.1
Fingal 1.1 71.9 8.7
Flinders Is Apt 0.0 47.2 7.8
Friendly Beach 0.0 61.0 8.3
Geeveston 11.1 16.4 2.4
Gladstone 2.2 66.1 8.5
Gray (Dalmayne R 1.4 33.7 7.0
Hamilton 3.3 79.6 8.9
Hartz Mtn 10.8 0.0 1.0
Hastings Chalet 4.5 15.1 5.7
Hobart Apt 0.0 129.9 10.0
Hobart City 4.2 65.6 7.9
Huonville 0.0 41.8 7.5
Judbury 0.0 57.0 8.2
Kennaook/Cape Gr 8.1 3.9 1.7
King Is Ap 4.6 11.9 4.2
Lake Leake 2.4 40.8 7.4
Lake St Clair 9.0 3.3 1.1
Launceston Apt 7.6 53.3 3.4
Launceston Apt 8.0 51.1 3.1
Launceston City 7.8 58.7 3.2
Lewis Hill 2.4 98.0 9.5
Liawenee A.W.S. 6.2 3.0 1.9
Llewellyn 1.1 72.7 8.8
Low Head 3.4 33.0 6.9
Low Rocky Pt 5.2 0.0 2.8
Luncheon Hill 14.8 0.0 1.4
Maatsuyker Is 6.6 0.0 1.6
Marrawah 9.0 7.6 1.6
Mathinna 7.7 12.8 1.6
Maydena 6.5 12.3 4.2
Meander 5.8 11.0 3.8
Melton Mowbray 2.0 76.9 8.9
Moogara 4.6 21.1 6.0
Mt Lloyd 4.6 20.5 5.9
Mt Read 50.8 0.0 0.1
Mt Wellington 6.4 0.0 3.4
New Norfolk 0.0 82.1 9.0
Nugent 0.0 40.2 7.4
Oatlands 1.8 60.9 8.3
Orford 2.5 88.9 9.2
Ouse 4.4 54.6 5.7
Palmers L/Out 4.3 10.6 5.5
Pioneer 1.6 56.5 8.2
Poatina 2.0 23.3 6.4
Port Davey 14.0 0.0 0.5
Pyengana 12.7 4.3 0.6
Rosebery 14.2 0.0 1.5
Ross 1.2 93.7 9.4
Savage River 20.0 0.0 0.3
Scotts Peak 11.8 0.0 1.9
Scottsdale 9.6 9.6 1.1
Sheffield 4.6 12.6 4.5
Smithton 9.6 8.6 1.2
St Marys 1.3 42.7 7.5
Strahan Town 11.2 0.0 2.0
Strathgordon 16.5 0.0 1.2
Swansea 0.0 87.1 9.2
Tarraleah Vill 18.2 0.0 1.1
Tea Tree 0.0 64.4 8.5
Temma 10.8 0.0 1.0
Tooms Lake 1.8 58.8 8.3
Tunnack 2.4 55.8 8.1
Upper Esk 2.0 42.4 7.5
Victoria Valley 4.0 18.9 4.1
Waratah 18.0 0.0 0.5
Warra 21.4 0.0 0.3
Westbury 5.8 34.7 5.7
Wynyard 10.0 11.2 1.3
Zeehan 18.0 0.0 0.9