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 / 07 / 2026
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 2.0 93.5 6.6
Beauty Flat Rd 0.2 13.8 4.8
Bicheno 0.2 50.8 6.1
Bothwell 0.4 86.5 9.2
Bull Bay 1.1 95.6 8.6
Burnie 11.0 0.0 0.6
Bushy Park 0.8 93.6 8.9
Campbell Town 2.0 82.5 6.4
Cape Bruny 8.8 6.8 0.9
Colebrook 3.4 38.9 6.6
Devonport East 10.2 0.0 0.7
Dover 2.6 26.3 6.6
Dunalley (Stroud 1.6 76.1 5.4
Eddystone Pt 13.0 33.2 1.6
Erriba 20.2 0.0 0.4
Fingal 2.2 68.3 5.8
Flinders Is Apt 19.4 26.7 0.5
Friendly Beach 0.0 54.6 5.1
Geeveston 2.5 28.9 6.8
Gladstone 14.3 20.6 1.2
Gray (Dalmayne R 1.8 0.7 2.2
Hamilton 0.7 105.4 9.3
Hartz Mtn 1.6 2.9 5.7
Hastings Chalet 0.3 16.9 6.2
Hobart Apt 1.0 111.5 8.9
Hobart City 0.4 74.4 8.6
Huonville 0.5 36.2 6.9
Judbury 0.6 79.1 9.0
Kennaook/Cape Gr 22.5 0.0 0.2
King Is Ap 21.8 0.0 0.2
Lake Leake 3.6 4.1 4.5
Lake St Clair 7.5 0.0 0.8
Launceston Apt 18.2 55.9 2.5
Launceston Apt 25.0 22.8 0.2
Launceston City 24.8 37.3 0.3
Lewis Hill 6.0 75.5 6.0
Liawenee A.W.S. 5.4 0.0 1.4
Llewellyn 18.0 18.9 2.0
Low Head 15.6 0.0 1.0
Low Rocky Pt 23.8 0.0 0.6
Luncheon Hill 26.2 0.0 0.2
Maatsuyker Is 11.2 0.0 0.6
Marrawah 25.0 0.0 0.2
Mathinna 21.6 0.0 0.8
Maydena 1.7 0.5 3.8
Meander 14.0 0.0 0.6
Melton Mowbray 1.0 70.9 8.7
Moogara 1.2 20.1 6.0
Mt Lloyd 1.2 20.1 6.0
Mt Read 16.6 0.0 1.2
Mt Wellington 1.2 0.0 4.3
New Norfolk 0.4 87.2 9.2
Nugent 1.8 10.5 4.8
Oatlands 2.8 58.2 7.7
Orford 1.2 78.0 8.1
Ouse 0.8 83.8 8.4
Palmers L/Out 0.3 11.3 6.2
Pioneer 10.4 5.5 1.8
Poatina 2.8 0.0 1.1
Port Davey 22.0 0.0 0.2
Pyengana 35.6 0.0 0.5
Rosebery 28.4 0.0 0.3
Ross 2.4 84.2 6.4
Savage River 28.9 0.0 0.2
Scotts Peak 10.0 0.0 2.1
Scottsdale 27.8 0.0 0.6
Sheffield 21.2 0.0 0.7
Smithton 20.6 0.0 0.2
St Marys 0.3 3.7 3.3
Strahan Town 21.8 0.0 0.4
Strathgordon 33.0 0.0 0.2
Swansea 0.0 46.0 5.7
Tarraleah Vill 5.6 1.6 4.0
Tea Tree 1.4 47.8 7.8
Temma 30.0 0.0 0.1
Tooms Lake 2.8 45.9 6.5
Tunnack 2.6 44.4 7.2
Upper Esk 4.0 0.0 2.0
Victoria Valley 3.3 43.9 3.7
Waratah 50.0 0.0 0.1
Warra 5.0 5.2 4.6
Westbury 16.0 0.0 0.8
Wynyard 14.2 0.0 1.1
Zeehan 11.8 0.0 0.5