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 08 / 12 / 2025
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 0.0 60.0 8.3
Beauty Flat Rd 0.0 51.9 8.0
Bicheno 0.0 69.5 8.6
Bothwell 0.4 57.0 8.2
Bull Bay 0.0 81.4 9.0
Burnie 2.2 36.6 7.2
Bushy Park 0.4 64.9 8.5
Campbell Town 0.0 48.6 7.8
Cape Bruny 4.8 7.9 2.9
Colebrook 0.0 40.8 7.4
Devonport East 2.4 35.9 7.2
Dover 3.6 18.4 5.4
Dunalley (Stroud 0.2 64.1 7.9
Eddystone Pt 0.0 73.9 8.8
Erriba 2.8 15.4 6.0
Fingal 0.0 40.1 7.4
Flinders Is Apt 0.0 40.5 7.4
Friendly Beach 0.0 60.9 8.3
Geeveston 0.5 34.3 7.1
Gladstone 1.7 52.2 8.0
Gray (Dalmayne R 0.0 26.6 6.6
Hamilton 0.0 48.0 7.8
Hartz Mtn 5.6 0.0 2.5
Hastings Chalet 3.0 13.2 3.0
Hobart Apt 0.0 113.0 9.8
Hobart City 0.0 53.6 8.0
Huonville 0.0 35.6 7.2
Judbury 0.8 34.1 7.1
Kennaook/Cape Gr 4.5 13.6 3.4
King Is Ap 0.2 24.1 6.4
Lake Leake 0.0 27.9 6.7
Lake St Clair 0.3 20.2 6.2
Launceston Apt 0.2 41.9 7.5
Launceston Apt 0.8 32.1 6.9
Launceston City 0.8 43.1 7.6
Lewis Hill 0.0 53.4 8.0
Liawenee A.W.S. 0.2 18.1 6.2
Llewellyn 0.0 30.8 6.9
Low Head 2.0 36.8 7.2
Low Rocky Pt 17.8 0.0 0.4
Luncheon Hill 15.2 0.0 0.6
Maatsuyker Is 5.8 0.0 2.0
Marrawah 5.0 20.0 3.2
Mathinna 1.5 26.3 6.6
Maydena 0.9 45.4 7.7
Meander 1.2 34.8 7.1
Melton Mowbray 0.0 54.3 8.1
Moogara 0.6 40.3 7.4
Mt Lloyd 0.6 40.3 7.4
Mt Read 38.6 0.0 0.1
Mt Wellington 1.0 3.9 5.7
New Norfolk 0.0 67.6 8.6
Nugent 0.0 32.0 6.9
Oatlands 0.0 59.1 8.3
Orford 0.0 59.4 8.3
Ouse 0.0 38.8 7.3
Palmers L/Out 2.9 7.2 2.9
Pioneer 1.8 50.3 7.9
Poatina 0.4 45.9 7.7
Port Davey 12.0 0.0 0.8
Pyengana 2.5 12.9 5.6
Rosebery 24.5 0.0 0.7
Ross 0.0 47.9 7.8
Savage River 14.0 10.0 1.6
Scotts Peak 11.4 0.0 1.5
Scottsdale 2.0 24.5 6.5
Sheffield 2.0 27.7 6.7
Smithton 5.0 23.4 5.3
St Marys 0.0 47.5 7.8
Strahan Town 18.8 0.0 1.0
Strathgordon 28.5 0.0 0.6
Swansea 0.0 31.4 6.0
Tarraleah Vill 7.0 0.0 1.1
Tea Tree 0.2 37.0 7.2
Temma 6.0 4.0 2.1
Tooms Lake 0.2 17.0 5.0
Tunnack 0.0 42.5 7.5
Upper Esk 0.0 28.3 5.8
Victoria Valley 0.1 38.5 7.3
Waratah 10.0 0.0 0.9
Warra 9.0 0.0 1.5
Westbury 1.6 35.2 7.1
Wynyard 3.2 36.0 7.2
Zeehan 28.5 0.0 0.6