Regional prices
Above normalPADD 1A (New England) propane price
Residential propane, EIA weekly survey (October-March)
Data through Oct 5, 2026 · source last checked Oct 7, 2026 · page revised Oct 12, 2026
Cite
- Residential
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 1A (New England)
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 5, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.828/gal, 11.8% above the 5-yr median.
New England residential propane sits at $3.828/gal as of October 5. The price runs 11.8% above the 5-yr median and up 9.4% from $3.498/gal a year ago.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.828/gal | n/a | n/a |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $3.828/gal | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $3.828/gal | $3.498/gal | +9.4% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.828/gal | $3.425/gal | +11.8% |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
PADD 1A residential propane reached $3.766/gal in the March 30 survey, up 0.6% from the prior week. The price sits 2% above the 4-year median and 3.1% higher than four weeks ago, though it is down 0.9% from the same week last year.
An earlier week
New England residential propane closed the heating season at $3.766/gal on March 30, up 11.2 cents from four weeks prior and 2% above the 4-year median. The EIA price survey runs October through March and resumes in October.
Week of Aug 13, 2026
New England residential propane rose 2.4 cents on the week to $3.766 per gallon. The price sits 2% above the 4-year median. Year-over-year it is down 3.5 cents.
About PADD 1A (New England) propane price
New England, PADD 1A, covers Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. It is the smallest of the three East Coast price districts and the one furthest from Gulf Coast pipelines: no propane is produced here and none arrives by trunk line, so every gallon comes in by ship, rail or truck. Heating oil still heats more New England homes than propane does, which concentrates propane demand in the towns and newer subdivisions the gas mains never reached, plus a delivered-fuel market that competes directly with oil on price.
EIA does not publish a separate wholesale price for New England, so this chart carries the residential line alone; the wholesale side of the delivery-cost stack has to be read off the East Coast (PADD 1) price instead, which does carry both lines. What that means in practice: a winter storm that closes a port or a road here moves the delivered price on a freight problem, not a Mont Belvieu problem, which is why this region's price can diverge from the Gulf Coast hub more than any other on the site.
Propane's importance varies sharply within the six states: Vermont and New Hampshire lean on it far more than the region average, since neither has much natural gas service outside a handful of towns, while urban Massachusetts and Rhode Island run mostly on gas and propane fills in around the edges. See New England propane stocks for the regional inventory cushion behind this price.
New England is PADD 1A, one of the three parts of the East Coast district; the PADD guide lists the states in all three.