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 / 06 / 2026
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 13.7 109.4 2.1
Beauty Flat Rd 7.8 23.7 2.7
Bicheno 8.4 65.8 3.0
Bothwell 2.8 92.4 7.3
Bull Bay 1.1 101.6 9.5
Burnie 19.8 38.1 0.6
Bushy Park 2.0 108.9 8.7
Campbell Town 14.0 100.2 2.0
Cape Bruny 0.0 10.2 6.0
Colebrook 5.7 39.1 3.7
Devonport East 18.4 51.5 0.8
Dover 0.0 19.7 5.9
Dunalley (Stroud 0.8 96.4 9.4
Eddystone Pt 23.8 58.3 0.9
Erriba 30.8 0.0 0.3
Fingal 15.5 89.2 1.7
Flinders Is Apt 15.4 55.7 1.3
Friendly Beach 12.8 84.7 1.9
Geeveston 0.5 20.6 6.2
Gladstone 26.4 45.0 0.7
Gray (Dalmayne R 10.8 9.2 1.5
Hamilton 5.0 114.2 5.5
Hartz Mtn 0.4 1.6 3.9
Hastings Chalet 0.0 23.5 5.7
Hobart Apt 1.0 115.2 9.7
Hobart City 0.4 76.3 8.9
Huonville 0.5 35.1 7.1
Judbury 0.4 81.5 8.9
Kennaook/Cape Gr 50.4 0.0 0.1
King Is Ap 6.2 5.1 1.5
Lake Leake 6.0 3.1 2.4
Lake St Clair 16.5 0.0 0.7
Launceston Apt 9.0 114.0 2.4
Launceston Apt 10.0 86.8 2.2
Launceston City 10.0 98.5 2.2
Lewis Hill 8.4 88.3 3.2
Liawenee A.W.S. 11.4 0.0 1.2
Llewellyn 9.0 75.9 2.4
Low Head 16.7 41.7 0.7
Low Rocky Pt 2.4 0.2 3.3
Luncheon Hill 35.6 0.0 0.3
Maatsuyker Is 1.4 1.7 4.5
Marrawah 56.0 0.0 0.1
Mathinna 19.3 2.8 0.6
Maydena 4.4 7.8 3.5
Meander 14.6 22.9 1.0
Melton Mowbray 2.0 73.2 8.5
Moogara 3.0 32.0 5.8
Mt Lloyd 3.0 32.0 5.8
Mt Read 54.2 0.0 0.1
Mt Wellington 3.2 0.0 3.5
New Norfolk 0.4 89.6 9.2
Nugent 1.8 13.9 5.9
Oatlands 4.6 66.5 5.2
Orford 1.2 85.3 9.1
Ouse 6.4 93.9 4.4
Palmers L/Out 0.0 21.6 5.7
Pioneer 19.2 29.7 0.9
Poatina 9.6 48.6 3.7
Port Davey 1.4 2.7 4.0
Pyengana 31.8 0.0 0.1
Rosebery 18.1 0.0 0.6
Ross 13.6 101.6 2.6
Savage River 41.0 0.0 0.2
Scotts Peak 1.4 0.0 3.8
Scottsdale 24.8 0.0 0.4
Sheffield 22.0 0.0 0.4
Smithton 20.2 0.0 0.3
St Marys 10.7 12.7 1.6
Strahan Town 14.4 0.0 0.8
Strathgordon 21.0 0.0 0.5
Swansea 11.3 66.3 2.4
Tarraleah Vill 12.6 0.0 1.0
Tea Tree 2.2 53.6 7.8
Temma 67.2 0.0 0.1
Tooms Lake 7.8 46.2 2.9
Tunnack 4.6 45.6 4.6
Upper Esk 28.0 0.0 0.4
Victoria Valley 7.3 83.8 3.9
Waratah 112.0 0.0 0.0
Warra 1.4 0.4 3.2
Westbury 15.8 38.2 1.2
Wynyard 32.2 0.0 0.2
Zeehan 21.0 0.0 0.4