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 31 / 08 / 2025
* Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart *
Station Rain SDI Forest
to 9am mm DF
mm
------------------------ ------ --------- ------
Avoca 0.0 86.7 9.2
Beauty Flat Rd 2.8 21.5 5.8
Bicheno 0.0 34.4 7.1
Bothwell 0.4 118.2 9.9
Bull Bay 0.0 100.9 7.4
Burnie 0.0 23.7 4.7
Bushy Park 1.0 119.4 9.2
Campbell Town 0.0 71.0 8.7
Cape Bruny 4.0 9.0 3.6
Colebrook 0.0 52.5 8.0
Devonport East 0.0 32.2 5.4
Dover 1.8 8.5 1.2
Dunalley (Stroud 0.0 78.5 8.5
Eddystone Pt 0.0 76.4 4.5
Erriba 0.0 0.9 1.9
Fingal 0.0 51.1 7.9
Flinders Is Apt 0.0 32.1 0.8
Friendly Beach 0.0 43.7 7.6
Geeveston 0.2 28.8 3.0
Gladstone 0.0 70.2 4.1
Gray (Dalmayne R 6.2 1.8 3.7
Hamilton 0.3 127.0 9.5
Hartz Mtn 12.0 0.0 0.2
Hastings Chalet 0.9 5.4 1.3
Hobart Apt 0.0 117.0 7.8
Hobart City 0.0 75.2 7.9
Huonville 0.0 39.8 6.1
Judbury 1.2 57.9 7.6
Kennaook/Cape Gr 1.8 0.1 0.9
King Is Ap 1.2 6.3 2.5
Lake Leake 0.0 34.6 7.1
Lake St Clair 0.3 0.5 3.8
Launceston Apt 0.0 31.4 6.1
Launceston Apt 0.0 27.4 4.9
Launceston City 0.0 35.0 5.2
Lewis Hill 0.0 46.6 7.7
Liawenee A.W.S. 0.2 0.2 4.5
Llewellyn 0.0 53.3 7.7
Low Head 0.2 12.6 1.6
Low Rocky Pt 6.0 0.0 0.6
Luncheon Hill 5.2 0.0 2.0
Maatsuyker Is 4.8 0.0 2.5
Marrawah 2.0 0.6 0.7
Mathinna 0.0 1.4 3.8
Maydena 2.2 23.1 3.6
Meander 0.4 1.1 3.2
Melton Mowbray 0.0 78.2 8.9
Moogara 1.5 43.2 6.1
Mt Lloyd 1.5 43.4 6.1
Mt Read 74.4 0.0 0.0
Mt Wellington 5.0 0.0 4.2
New Norfolk 0.0 91.6 8.4
Nugent 0.0 24.4 4.1
Oatlands 0.0 70.7 8.7
Orford 0.0 84.8 6.7
Ouse 0.4 114.2 9.5
Palmers L/Out 0.9 1.0 1.3
Pioneer 0.0 1.7 3.3
Poatina 0.0 5.9 4.6
Port Davey 10.0 0.0 1.0
Pyengana 0.0 1.5 2.3
Rosebery 6.5 0.0 2.1
Ross 0.0 69.9 8.7
Savage River 5.6 0.0 2.2
Scotts Peak 15.8 0.0 1.2
Scottsdale 0.0 1.5 3.2
Sheffield 0.0 1.4 2.7
Smithton 2.6 18.0 1.1
St Marys 0.0 26.5 6.6
Strahan Town 5.4 0.0 2.6
Strathgordon 7.5 0.0 1.6
Swansea 0.0 35.0 7.1
Tarraleah Vill 18.2 0.0 0.7
Tea Tree 0.0 80.8 9.0
Temma 2.4 0.0 0.6
Tooms Lake 0.0 32.5 7.0
Tunnack 0.0 50.6 7.9
Upper Esk 0.0 21.2 6.2
Victoria Valley 0.1 21.1 6.2
Waratah 4.0 0.0 0.3
Warra 9.8 0.0 1.1
Westbury 0.0 1.4 1.6
Wynyard 0.0 1.5 2.6
Zeehan 19.2 0.0 0.5