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 23 / 07 / 2026
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 0.0 94.5 9.4
Beauty Flat Rd 0.0 36.5 7.2
Bicheno 0.0 63.6 8.4
Bothwell 1.0 78.6 8.9
Bull Bay 0.2 92.2 9.3
Burnie 0.2 21.1 6.2
Bushy Park 5.0 79.8 7.4
Campbell Town 0.0 82.4 9.0
Cape Bruny 2.4 0.0 2.8
Colebrook 0.2 46.5 7.7
Devonport East 0.2 21.7 6.3
Dover 2.0 13.7 6.2
Dunalley (Stroud 0.0 77.6 8.9
Eddystone Pt 1.6 48.2 7.8
Erriba 0.3 7.4 5.3
Fingal 0.0 65.8 8.5
Flinders Is Apt 1.8 31.4 6.9
Friendly Beach 0.0 66.0 8.5
Geeveston 3.7 12.9 5.9
Gladstone 2.2 36.9 7.2
Gray (Dalmayne R 0.0 26.9 6.6
Hamilton 1.7 84.8 9.1
Hartz Mtn 4.0 0.0 3.4
Hastings Chalet 3.0 13.6 6.1
Hobart Apt 0.2 111.7 9.8
Hobart City 1.0 60.5 8.3
Huonville 1.3 28.0 6.7
Judbury 2.6 63.5 8.4
Kennaook/Cape Gr 3.6 1.2 3.8
King Is Ap 3.0 9.2 4.9
Lake Leake 0.2 13.3 6.2
Lake St Clair 6.0 9.1 4.3
Launceston Apt 0.4 53.0 8.0
Launceston Apt 0.4 31.3 6.9
Launceston City 0.4 44.8 7.6
Lewis Hill 0.2 78.4 8.9
Liawenee A.W.S. 4.2 6.9 5.2
Llewellyn 8.2 136.9 3.0
Low Head 0.4 7.1 4.4
Low Rocky Pt 2.6 0.0 0.6
Luncheon Hill 7.8 0.0 2.4
Maatsuyker Is 3.2 0.0 2.2
Marrawah 4.0 3.4 3.7
Mathinna 2.3 3.9 4.2
Maydena 10.9 6.9 2.2
Meander 0.0 11.2 6.1
Melton Mowbray 0.0 68.7 8.6
Moogara 7.6 7.5 3.4
Mt Lloyd 7.6 8.1 3.4
Mt Read 17.8 0.0 0.3
Mt Wellington 0.0 4.3 5.5
New Norfolk 0.9 75.6 8.8
Nugent 0.4 17.5 6.2
Oatlands 0.2 54.0 8.1
Orford 0.2 75.1 8.8
Ouse 2.4 57.6 8.2
Palmers L/Out 1.4 11.2 5.7
Pioneer 1.6 15.9 6.2
Poatina 0.0 9.9 6.1
Port Davey 6.0 0.0 0.9
Pyengana 3.8 9.2 4.8
Rosebery 10.3 0.0 0.7
Ross 0.0 82.1 9.0
Savage River 13.0 0.0 1.2
Scotts Peak 9.6 0.0 1.2
Scottsdale 2.8 3.4 3.4
Sheffield 0.2 10.5 6.1
Smithton 4.6 8.6 4.3
St Marys 0.0 30.8 6.9
Strahan Town 8.2 0.0 1.0
Strathgordon 12.0 0.0 0.6
Swansea 0.0 57.3 8.2
Tarraleah Vill 12.6 0.0 0.4
Tea Tree 0.2 51.9 8.0
Temma 4.8 0.0 3.0
Tooms Lake 0.0 50.6 7.9
Tunnack 0.2 50.8 7.9
Upper Esk 0.0 12.8 6.2
Victoria Valley 2.6 29.0 6.8
Waratah 8.0 0.0 1.7
Warra 15.2 0.0 0.7
Westbury 0.5 14.3 6.2
Wynyard 1.2 10.2 5.5
Zeehan 25.8 0.0 0.4