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 13 / 10 / 2026
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 0.0 138.8 10.0
Beauty Flat Rd 0.0 90.5 9.3
Bicheno 0.0 125.5 10.0
Bothwell 7.2 83.8 2.7
Bull Bay 1.1 135.9 8.0
Burnie 0.7 37.9 7.3
Bushy Park 12.4 65.2 1.5
Campbell Town 0.0 122.2 9.9
Cape Bruny 8.8 23.3 2.3
Colebrook 3.4 74.8 5.7
Devonport East 0.6 40.0 7.4
Dover 12.4 22.0 1.7
Dunalley (Stroud 1.2 104.0 9.6
Eddystone Pt 1.6 106.2 9.6
Erriba 5.6 7.7 3.0
Fingal 0.0 94.7 9.4
Flinders Is Apt 2.2 68.5 8.6
Friendly Beach 0.0 109.2 9.7
Geeveston 23.4 22.1 0.7
Gladstone 2.2 87.4 9.2
Gray (Dalmayne R 0.2 76.3 8.9
Hamilton 12.5 81.1 1.3
Hartz Mtn 5.2 6.3 3.7
Hastings Chalet 11.9 29.6 1.8
Hobart Apt 1.0 148.9 8.3
Hobart City 5.8 87.4 3.1
Huonville 7.9 56.1 1.9
Judbury 13.4 11.1 2.0
Kennaook/Cape Gr 2.7 9.6 2.2
King Is Ap 1.4 43.6 7.6
Lake Leake 3.6 51.4 5.1
Lake St Clair 10.5 5.4 1.7
Launceston Apt 1.2 76.2 8.9
Launceston Apt 0.2 66.8 8.6
Launceston City 0.2 75.9 8.9
Lewis Hill 0.0 134.0 10.0
Liawenee A.W.S. 0.0 16.5 6.2
Llewellyn 0.0 96.3 9.4
Low Head 1.2 50.6 7.9
Low Rocky Pt 4.8 19.8 3.7
Luncheon Hill 10.8 0.0 0.9
Maatsuyker Is 10.8 10.3 1.5
Marrawah 2.8 12.1 2.0
Mathinna 1.5 38.2 7.3
Maydena 0.0 48.6 7.8
Meander 2.6 19.8 3.9
Melton Mowbray 0.0 89.0 9.2
Moogara 18.2 24.0 0.6
Mt Lloyd 18.2 23.7 0.6
Mt Read 20.0 0.0 0.4
Mt Wellington 0.2 10.8 5.5
New Norfolk 5.4 105.4 3.5
Nugent 1.8 51.4 5.3
Oatlands 2.8 100.6 7.0
Orford 1.2 117.3 7.5
Ouse 14.8 51.8 1.0
Palmers L/Out 11.4 23.8 1.8
Pioneer 1.6 68.1 8.6
Poatina 0.4 56.2 7.5
Port Davey 22.0 0.0 0.4
Pyengana 3.0 50.1 6.6
Rosebery 11.6 1.4 0.5
Ross 0.0 122.0 9.9
Savage River 12.2 0.0 1.3
Scotts Peak 11.0 0.0 1.3
Scottsdale 2.2 38.7 7.3
Sheffield 4.0 19.4 4.5
Smithton 3.2 17.1 3.4
St Marys 0.0 83.7 9.1
Strahan Town 9.2 20.1 0.9
Strathgordon 0.3 6.6 5.5
Swansea 0.0 124.3 10.0
Tarraleah Vill 33.6 0.0 0.2
Tea Tree 4.2 79.2 6.2
Temma 3.6 0.0 1.3
Tooms Lake 0.4 71.4 8.7
Tunnack 2.6 65.9 8.4
Upper Esk 0.0 58.0 8.2
Victoria Valley 4.6 43.4 5.6
Waratah 6.0 0.0 0.5
Warra 30.6 0.0 0.3
Westbury 0.2 56.9 8.2
Wynyard 3.8 20.7 5.0
Zeehan 33.4 0.0 0.2