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 17 / 11 / 2025
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 0.0 40.0 7.4
Beauty Flat Rd 0.0 25.8 6.6
Bicheno 0.0 42.3 7.5
Bothwell 10.0 36.4 3.3
Bull Bay 16.4 59.0 1.8
Burnie 2.2 18.3 6.2
Bushy Park 0.0 31.6 6.9
Campbell Town 0.0 28.2 6.7
Cape Bruny 7.2 0.2 3.1
Colebrook 11.4 21.3 2.5
Devonport East 1.8 18.3 6.2
Dover 8.8 0.0 2.5
Dunalley (Stroud 16.8 43.3 1.6
Eddystone Pt 0.0 50.3 7.9
Erriba 5.6 7.5 4.0
Fingal 0.0 18.6 6.2
Flinders Is Apt 1.6 31.1 6.9
Friendly Beach 0.0 30.6 6.9
Geeveston 6.2 3.4 3.8
Gladstone 0.0 24.9 6.5
Gray (Dalmayne R 0.0 27.4 6.7
Hamilton 0.8 23.2 6.4
Hartz Mtn 6.4 0.0 1.6
Hastings Chalet 10.4 0.0 2.0
Hobart Apt 15.0 88.8 2.2
Hobart City 2.8 30.8 6.9
Huonville 3.9 6.3 5.4
Judbury 6.2 3.4 3.8
Kennaook/Cape Gr 8.1 0.0 2.7
King Is Ap 5.0 7.2 4.8
Lake Leake 12.0 4.1 1.8
Lake St Clair 9.0 0.8 2.5
Launceston Apt 1.2 21.4 6.2
Launceston Apt 1.0 18.3 6.2
Launceston City 1.4 20.7 6.2
Lewis Hill 0.0 32.8 7.0
Liawenee A.W.S. 5.6 1.7 4.0
Llewellyn 0.0 13.6 6.2
Low Head 3.6 17.2 6.2
Low Rocky Pt 9.2 0.0 2.4
Luncheon Hill 14.6 0.0 1.3
Maatsuyker Is 8.8 0.0 2.5
Marrawah 9.0 1.1 2.5
Mathinna 3.1 10.4 6.1
Maydena 0.0 9.9 5.5
Meander 2.6 14.8 6.2
Melton Mowbray 11.0 34.2 2.9
Moogara 0.0 8.0 5.8
Mt Lloyd 0.0 8.0 5.8
Mt Read 21.0 0.0 0.7
Mt Wellington 2.8 0.0 4.9
New Norfolk 2.7 49.9 7.9
Nugent 26.4 0.0 0.5
Oatlands 9.2 44.5 3.8
Orford 18.6 32.1 1.3
Ouse 1.4 6.4 5.8
Palmers L/Out 10.0 0.0 2.1
Pioneer 0.0 22.3 6.3
Poatina 0.0 18.0 6.2
Port Davey 18.0 0.0 0.9
Pyengana 5.1 6.5 3.2
Rosebery 18.1 0.0 0.8
Ross 0.0 28.8 6.7
Savage River 16.7 0.0 1.0
Scotts Peak 11.8 0.0 1.7
Scottsdale 4.0 12.0 5.8
Sheffield 3.6 12.3 6.1
Smithton 4.6 8.1 5.1
St Marys 0.0 15.6 6.2
Strahan Town 13.6 0.0 1.2
Strathgordon 21.0 0.0 0.7
Swansea 0.0 14.5 6.2
Tarraleah Vill 19.6 0.0 0.8
Tea Tree 14.8 13.4 1.6
Temma 10.8 0.0 1.9
Tooms Lake 5.4 16.1 5.1
Tunnack 9.8 25.6 3.1
Upper Esk 0.0 12.1 5.6
Victoria Valley 4.0 14.1 5.9
Waratah 18.0 0.0 0.9
Warra 15.6 0.0 1.2
Westbury 0.5 17.6 6.2
Wynyard 3.6 13.2 6.1
Zeehan 19.8 0.0 0.8