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 01 / 10 / 2026
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 0.6 128.9 10.0
Beauty Flat Rd 0.2 78.4 8.9
Bicheno 0.2 107.1 9.7
Bothwell 0.2 83.0 9.1
Bull Bay 0.0 129.8 10.0
Burnie 0.0 43.0 7.5
Bushy Park 0.2 65.5 8.5
Campbell Town 0.6 113.2 9.8
Cape Bruny 0.6 18.0 6.2
Colebrook 0.0 61.7 8.4
Devonport East 0.0 44.2 7.6
Dover 0.6 18.9 6.2
Dunalley (Stroud 0.0 86.5 9.2
Eddystone Pt 0.2 97.1 9.4
Erriba 0.3 26.2 6.6
Fingal 0.7 86.3 9.2
Flinders Is Apt 0.0 63.7 8.4
Friendly Beach 0.0 89.8 9.3
Geeveston 0.7 31.2 6.9
Gladstone 0.0 82.6 9.1
Gray (Dalmayne R 0.0 59.1 8.3
Hamilton 0.0 80.0 9.0
Hartz Mtn 2.2 7.2 6.0
Hastings Chalet 1.2 28.9 6.8
Hobart Apt 0.0 144.0 10.0
Hobart City 0.0 68.8 8.6
Huonville 0.0 45.1 7.7
Judbury 0.0 39.2 7.4
Kennaook/Cape Gr 7.6 19.9 2.3
King Is Ap 14.2 32.7 2.0
Lake Leake 0.0 48.0 7.8
Lake St Clair 0.0 16.4 6.2
Launceston Apt 0.0 64.8 8.5
Launceston Apt 0.0 58.7 8.3
Launceston City 0.0 67.6 8.6
Lewis Hill 0.0 112.5 9.8
Liawenee A.W.S. 0.0 13.4 6.2
Llewellyn 0.7 89.0 9.2
Low Head 0.0 43.4 7.6
Low Rocky Pt 0.0 1.8 4.8
Luncheon Hill 17.6 0.0 0.4
Maatsuyker Is 0.8 8.5 6.1
Marrawah 8.4 23.6 2.0
Mathinna 10.0 31.8 3.2
Maydena 0.4 8.3 5.7
Meander 0.0 32.2 7.0
Melton Mowbray 0.0 76.9 8.9
Moogara 0.3 26.1 6.6
Mt Lloyd 0.3 26.2 6.6
Mt Read 0.2 0.6 3.0
Mt Wellington 0.0 9.0 6.1
New Norfolk 0.0 87.7 9.2
Nugent 0.0 50.1 7.9
Oatlands 0.0 68.0 8.6
Orford 0.0 102.2 9.5
Ouse 0.0 54.7 8.1
Palmers L/Out 0.0 11.6 5.8
Pioneer 0.0 71.6 8.7
Poatina 0.8 49.6 7.9
Port Davey 1.6 4.6 5.7
Pyengana 0.0 32.8 7.0
Rosebery 0.3 7.4 4.9
Ross 0.6 112.7 9.8
Savage River 0.0 8.9 5.8
Scotts Peak 0.2 1.7 4.1
Scottsdale 0.0 32.5 7.0
Sheffield 0.2 31.2 6.9
Smithton 22.6 10.9 0.6
St Marys 0.3 70.9 8.7
Strahan Town 0.2 18.3 6.2
Strathgordon 0.3 5.3 4.5
Swansea 0.0 109.9 9.7
Tarraleah Vill 0.0 1.4 2.9
Tea Tree 0.0 66.6 8.5
Temma 9.6 12.3 1.4
Tooms Lake 0.0 59.8 8.3
Tunnack 0.0 55.6 8.1
Upper Esk 1.2 54.7 8.1
Victoria Valley 0.0 34.7 7.1
Waratah 16.0 0.0 0.5
Warra 0.6 1.1 2.3
Westbury 0.0 48.8 7.8
Wynyard 0.0 32.7 7.0
Zeehan 15.2 0.0 1.2