Regional prices
Near normalPADD 2 (Midwest) 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 2 (Midwest)
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 5, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.049/gal, 7.5% above the 5-yr median.
$2.049/gal for PADD 2 residential propane, up 7.6% from a year ago and 7.5% above the 5-yr median. Wholesale settles at $1.027/gal.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.049/gal | n/a | n/a |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $2.049/gal | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $2.049/gal | $1.904/gal | +7.6% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.049/gal | $1.906/gal | +7.5% |
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $1.022/gal | $1.086/gal | -5.9% |
| vs 5-yr median | $1.022/gal | $1.026/gal | -0.4% |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
PADD 2 residential propane read $2.184/gal in the Mar 30 survey, down 1 cent on the week. Wholesale read $0.992/gal. The residential price sits 1.9% below the 4-year median.
An earlier week
PADD 2 residential propane finished the heating season at $2.184/gal on March 30, down 1.0 cent from the prior week and 1.9% below the 4-year median. The EIA weekly survey is dormant until October.
Week of Aug 13, 2026
PADD 2 residential propane closed the season at $2.184/gal, down 1 cent on the final week. The EIA weekly price survey runs October through March and resumes in October.
About PADD 2 (Midwest) propane price
The Midwest, PADD 2, covers fifteen states from Ohio to North Dakota and south to Oklahoma and Tennessee, the largest price district on this site by state count. Its season starts before the thermostat does: propane fires grain dryers across the Corn Belt every fall, and a wet harvest can pull volume hard in October and November, weeks ahead of real heating demand. Supply arrives mainly by pipeline from the Gulf Coast, with the inland Conway, Kansas hub acting as this region's own wholesale reference point, priced separately from and usually watched alongside Mont Belvieu.
Because Conway sits much closer to Midwest demand than the Gulf Coast does, this region's retail-minus-wholesale spread, in the table above, often behaves differently than a simple function of the Mont Belvieu price would predict; the Conway-to-Belvieu gap itself is one of the clearest signals of Midwest tightness. The winter of 2013-14, when a wet harvest, brutal cold and a pipeline reversal collided, is the reference case for how fast this region's cushion can thin; see Midwest propane stocks for the inventory side of that story.
The fifteen states do not all run the same season. Grain-drying demand concentrates in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the Dakotas; the Oklahoma and Kansas end of the district leans more on wheat and cattle country than on corn. A wet Iowa harvest and a dry Kansas one can pull this one PADD 2 number in different directions within the same month.
For a plain definition of PADD 2 and the full list of its fifteen states, see PADD 2, the Midwest.