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 16 / 09 / 2025
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 3.9 68.9 8.2
Beauty Flat Rd 0.0 42.0 7.5
Bicheno 0.0 55.6 8.1
Bothwell 0.4 106.6 9.6
Bull Bay 0.2 101.6 9.5
Burnie 5.5 11.1 4.7
Bushy Park 3.4 92.0 9.0
Campbell Town 4.0 52.3 7.8
Cape Bruny 11.2 0.0 0.7
Colebrook 0.7 45.4 7.7
Devonport East 4.8 15.0 5.5
Dover 4.8 8.2 3.0
Dunalley (Stroud 0.0 81.0 9.0
Eddystone Pt 2.8 74.3 8.8
Erriba 4.2 7.7 3.9
Fingal 4.4 34.3 6.8
Flinders Is Apt 1.8 33.7 7.0
Friendly Beach 0.0 59.9 8.3
Geeveston 6.2 11.1 4.3
Gladstone 3.3 67.5 8.6
Gray (Dalmayne R 0.0 27.7 6.7
Hamilton 3.3 94.7 9.1
Hartz Mtn 13.4 0.0 0.9
Hastings Chalet 0.9 12.2 6.2
Hobart Apt 0.2 119.2 9.9
Hobart City 0.6 70.0 8.7
Huonville 0.8 32.9 7.0
Judbury 2.2 47.0 7.7
Kennaook/Cape Gr 3.6 3.3 4.9
King Is Ap 1.4 8.7 6.1
Lake Leake 0.7 28.5 6.7
Lake St Clair 13.5 0.0 1.4
Launceston Apt 3.6 25.1 6.5
Launceston Apt 8.0 12.5 3.4
Launceston City 8.2 21.2 3.7
Lewis Hill 0.4 56.6 8.2
Liawenee A.W.S. 9.0 0.2 2.4
Llewellyn 1.2 49.3 7.9
Low Head 0.8 19.2 6.2
Low Rocky Pt 13.6 0.0 0.6
Luncheon Hill 9.0 0.0 2.4
Maatsuyker Is 14.2 0.0 0.5
Marrawah 4.4 4.1 4.6
Mathinna 2.3 11.6 6.2
Maydena 6.5 10.6 4.1
Meander 3.0 11.5 5.0
Melton Mowbray 0.0 73.5 8.8
Moogara 4.6 9.3 5.2
Mt Lloyd 4.6 9.3 5.2
Mt Read 14.8 0.0 1.2
Mt Wellington 4.0 1.0 4.8
New Norfolk 0.5 88.8 9.2
Nugent 0.4 29.0 6.8
Oatlands 0.6 61.9 8.4
Orford 0.2 82.7 9.1
Ouse 4.4 72.2 7.8
Palmers L/Out 0.9 11.4 6.1
Pioneer 2.4 16.8 6.2
Poatina 5.6 9.6 4.6
Port Davey 28.0 0.0 0.2
Pyengana 3.8 12.6 6.0
Rosebery 14.2 0.0 1.3
Ross 3.8 51.7 7.9
Savage River 11.0 0.0 1.9
Scotts Peak 16.2 0.0 0.5
Scottsdale 2.6 13.0 6.2
Sheffield 3.4 10.3 4.9
Smithton 2.6 10.8 6.1
St Marys 0.0 45.2 7.7
Strahan Town 11.2 0.0 1.8
Strathgordon 16.5 0.0 1.1
Swansea 0.0 51.2 7.9
Tarraleah Vill 19.6 0.0 0.7
Tea Tree 0.2 70.5 8.7
Temma 4.8 2.2 4.0
Tooms Lake 2.2 32.2 7.0
Tunnack 0.6 45.0 7.7
Upper Esk 8.0 8.6 3.2
Victoria Valley 5.9 7.4 4.2
Waratah 8.0 0.1 2.4
Warra 16.4 0.0 0.6
Westbury 9.1 6.2 2.7
Wynyard 6.4 11.8 4.2
Zeehan 9.2 0.0 2.4