Regional prices
Above normalPADD 1 (East Coast) propane price
Residential and wholesale propane, EIA weekly survey (October-March)
Data through Oct 5, 2026 · source last checked Oct 7, 2026 · page revised Oct 12, 2026
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- Residential
- Wholesale
About this data
- Source
- EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program survey
- Series
- Propane price, residential and wholesale/resale
- Basis
- Residential and wholesale/resale
- Geography
- PADD 1 (East Coast)
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 5, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.649/gal, 11.2% above the 5-yr median.
PADD 1 residential propane stands at $3.649/gal as of October 5, running 11.2% above the 5-year median and up 9.2% year over year. Wholesale reads $1.13/gal at the same date.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.649/gal | n/a | n/a |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $3.649/gal | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $3.649/gal | $3.342/gal | +9.2% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.649/gal | $3.281/gal | +11.2% |
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $2.519/gal | $2.404/gal | +4.8% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.519/gal | $2.264/gal | +11.3% |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Residential propane on the East Coast read $3.596/gal in the Mar 30 survey, up 1.2 cents on the week. The level sits 2.4% above the 4-year median.
An earlier week
East Coast residential propane closed the heating season at $3.596/gal on March 30, sitting 2.4% above the 4-year median. The EIA survey resumes in October.
Week of Aug 13, 2026
The EIA weekly propane price survey for PADD 1 runs October through March and is currently paused until October. The last reading from March 30, 2026, was $3.596/gal residential, 2.4% above the 4-year median.
About PADD 1 (East Coast) propane price
PADD 1, the East Coast, is the sum of the three sub-districts this site also pages on their own: New England (1A), the Central Atlantic (1B, the biggest of the three by demand) and the Lower Atlantic (1C). Together they run from Maine to West Virginia. The region produces essentially no propane of its own, so the price here reflects delivery cost more than it does anywhere the barrel originates: pipeline and rail from the Gulf Coast and Marcellus gas processing, marine imports at coastal terminals, and truck the rest of the way. A hard winter shows up here first as a logistics story, trucks and terminal throughput, before it shows up as a supply story.
Because a PADD 1 gallon travels further than a Gulf Coast one, the retail-minus-wholesale spread tends to run wider here than in producing regions; the residential-minus-wholesale table above tracks it. The three sub-districts do not move in lockstep: New England leans hardest on delivered fuel and carries no EIA wholesale line of its own (it reports into this PADD 1 line instead), the Central Atlantic carries the most volume, and the Lower Atlantic runs a milder, shallower season. See each on its own page for the state list behind it.
The three sub-districts run their own weekly retail surveys on EIA's usual October-March calendar, published Wednesday afternoons, and this aggregate line is the volume-weighted average of the three: it gets pulled hardest by whichever sub-district is heating the most homes in a given week, ordinarily the Central Atlantic given its size.
Which seventeen states and the District of Columbia make up PADD 1, and how EIA splits them into three sub-districts, is spelled out in what PADD 1 is.