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 07 / 04 / 2026
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 3.9 149.0 8.9
Beauty Flat Rd 5.8 98.2 6.8
Bicheno 6.2 139.5 6.6
Bothwell 2.2 152.0 10.0
Bull Bay 0.4 145.6 9.9
Burnie 19.8 130.3 1.5
Bushy Park 1.8 157.0 10.0
Campbell Town 4.0 147.1 8.8
Cape Bruny 10.4 33.6 3.1
Colebrook 3.4 135.5 9.3
Devonport East 17.8 131.6 1.8
Dover 2.8 84.1 9.1
Dunalley (Stroud 1.6 143.3 10.0
Eddystone Pt 4.2 150.0 8.6
Erriba 28.0 27.6 0.7
Fingal 4.4 141.9 8.4
Flinders Is Apt 2.8 143.8 9.8
Friendly Beach 3.4 141.9 9.3
Geeveston 3.7 98.5 8.8
Gladstone 4.4 145.6 8.4
Gray (Dalmayne R 5.4 40.3 6.4
Hamilton 2.5 156.9 10.0
Hartz Mtn 7.4 21.6 4.1
Hastings Chalet 11.9 21.1 2.3
Hobart Apt 0.4 157.8 10.0
Hobart City 0.4 146.2 10.0
Huonville 0.5 129.9 9.9
Judbury 2.2 141.6 10.0
Kennaook/Cape Gr 17.1 55.9 1.7
King Is Ap 7.4 120.8 5.6
Lake Leake 3.6 76.2 8.6
Lake St Clair 9.0 45.6 3.9
Launceston Apt 8.4 157.1 4.9
Launceston Apt 10.0 147.9 4.0
Launceston City 10.0 157.6 4.0
Lewis Hill 3.2 142.5 9.5
Liawenee A.W.S. 5.6 51.0 6.3
Llewellyn 8.0 110.4 5.1
Low Head 8.6 137.1 4.8
Low Rocky Pt 6.2 10.3 4.3
Luncheon Hill 16.4 42.8 1.7
Maatsuyker Is 12.8 7.4 1.8
Marrawah 19.0 74.5 1.5
Mathinna 10.0 132.2 4.0
Maydena 4.4 118.4 8.3
Meander 18.0 118.6 1.7
Melton Mowbray 2.0 146.7 10.0
Moogara 3.0 129.0 9.6
Mt Lloyd 3.0 128.8 9.6
Mt Read 20.0 0.0 0.8
Mt Wellington 1.2 6.0 5.9
New Norfolk 0.4 149.7 10.0
Nugent 0.7 59.4 8.3
Oatlands 2.8 143.1 9.8
Orford 0.5 141.3 9.9
Ouse 2.6 150.2 10.0
Palmers L/Out 11.4 7.4 2.1
Pioneer 3.2 148.1 9.5
Poatina 5.6 144.1 7.2
Port Davey 26.0 0.0 0.5
Pyengana 7.6 123.5 5.4
Rosebery 7.7 25.3 4.1
Ross 4.4 147.5 8.4
Savage River 17.8 25.4 1.3
Scotts Peak 5.0 9.4 4.9
Scottsdale 13.4 132.1 2.7
Sheffield 19.8 100.6 1.5
Smithton 17.2 134.5 1.9
St Marys 8.0 83.3 4.9
Strahan Town 5.8 34.0 5.7
Strathgordon 9.0 23.9 3.4
Swansea 5.0 124.1 5.5
Tarraleah Vill 7.0 28.4 4.6
Tea Tree 1.2 128.2 10.0
Temma 22.8 21.7 0.9
Tooms Lake 3.4 145.1 9.3
Tunnack 3.2 126.4 9.4
Upper Esk 8.0 60.5 4.7
Victoria Valley 4.0 141.8 8.8
Waratah 38.0 0.0 0.3
Warra 3.0 14.5 6.2
Westbury 12.8 133.7 2.9
Wynyard 25.6 121.6 1.0
Zeehan 11.4 2.7 1.9