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 25 / 03 / 2026
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 2.0 145.2 8.8
Beauty Flat Rd 2.9 101.9 9.5
Bicheno 3.4 142.0 9.3
Bothwell 6.2 145.9 6.6
Bull Bay 9.8 141.8 2.0
Burnie 5.5 140.3 4.6
Bushy Park 10.6 150.3 1.8
Campbell Town 2.0 144.1 8.8
Cape Bruny 1.6 28.7 2.5
Colebrook 10.3 123.9 2.9
Devonport East 5.0 140.1 5.2
Dover 3.8 76.3 2.7
Dunalley (Stroud 8.6 134.5 2.9
Eddystone Pt 8.2 146.9 5.0
Erriba 18.2 30.9 1.4
Fingal 2.2 134.5 8.3
Flinders Is Apt 2.4 133.8 10.0
Friendly Beach 6.4 141.1 6.4
Geeveston 8.6 94.8 3.2
Gladstone 8.8 142.6 4.7
Gray (Dalmayne R 5.2 41.7 6.4
Hamilton 5.0 150.0 5.6
Hartz Mtn 3.2 14.3 2.7
Hastings Chalet 4.5 13.3 0.8
Hobart Apt 9.0 154.3 2.3
Hobart City 8.4 134.2 5.0
Huonville 10.5 115.5 3.8
Judbury 3.6 131.0 5.9
Kennaook/Cape Gr 2.7 68.9 8.6
King Is Ap 11.4 118.2 3.3
Lake Leake 10.8 70.5 2.6
Lake St Clair 7.5 41.2 3.2
Launceston Apt 6.0 154.8 6.8
Launceston Apt 5.0 147.4 7.8
Launceston City 5.2 161.3 7.6
Lewis Hill 6.2 140.1 6.6
Liawenee A.W.S. 5.0 48.9 6.8
Llewellyn 6.0 98.9 6.6
Low Head 15.8 131.6 2.1
Low Rocky Pt 0.8 8.0 3.9
Luncheon Hill 2.0 55.1 8.1
Maatsuyker Is 2.4 0.2 1.2
Marrawah 2.6 84.2 9.1
Mathinna 6.9 127.8 6.0
Maydena 24.0 107.2 0.5
Meander 7.0 121.9 5.9
Melton Mowbray 9.0 140.3 2.1
Moogara 16.7 121.2 0.9
Mt Lloyd 16.7 121.0 0.9
Mt Read 2.2 0.0 2.7
Mt Wellington 12.2 0.0 1.5
New Norfolk 7.2 142.8 5.6
Nugent 15.8 56.8 0.9
Oatlands 8.3 138.3 5.0
Orford 11.2 131.9 1.6
Ouse 6.4 143.2 4.2
Palmers L/Out 4.3 0.0 0.7
Pioneer 6.4 144.0 6.5
Poatina 4.4 140.8 8.4
Port Davey 4.0 0.0 0.4
Pyengana 6.0 121.4 6.7
Rosebery 1.3 19.6 6.2
Ross 1.8 144.8 10.0
Savage River 2.2 40.3 7.4
Scotts Peak 4.0 10.0 3.5
Scottsdale 8.6 127.7 4.7
Sheffield 13.0 108.9 2.8
Smithton 3.2 144.5 9.5
St Marys 4.0 89.2 8.4
Strahan Town 1.4 27.6 6.7
Strathgordon 1.5 18.0 6.2
Swansea 6.3 118.2 6.5
Tarraleah Vill 4.2 22.2 4.4
Tea Tree 7.0 114.0 5.7
Temma 3.6 39.2 7.4
Tooms Lake 0.0 141.7 10.0
Tunnack 8.8 118.2 4.6
Upper Esk 4.0 56.1 4.6
Victoria Valley 3.3 136.1 9.4
Waratah 6.0 15.3 4.7
Warra 3.0 2.5 1.9
Westbury 5.7 141.8 7.1
Wynyard 7.4 135.3 4.0
Zeehan 4.0 17.0 5.4