Regional prices
Near normalPADD 4 (Rocky Mountain) 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 4 (Rocky Mountain)
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 5, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.248/gal, 6% above the 5-yr median.
PADD 4 residential propane reads $2.248/gal as of October 5, up 9.1% year over year and 6% above the 5-year median. Wholesale propane for the same week sat at $0.988/gal.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.248/gal | n/a | n/a |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $2.248/gal | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $2.248/gal | $2.060/gal | +9.1% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.248/gal | $2.121/gal | +6.0% |
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $1.260/gal | $1.288/gal | -2.2% |
| vs 5-yr median | $1.260/gal | $1.288/gal | -2.2% |
| State | Homes heating with propane (ACS 2020-2024) | Share of homes | Nearest surveyed state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 26,697 | 11.0% | Colorado |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
PADD 4 residential propane fell 2.3 cents on the week to $2.266/gal in the Mar 30 survey, and sits 7.8% below the 4-year median. Wholesale in the region read $0.973/gal.
An earlier week
PADD 4 residential propane closed at $2.266/gal, down 2.3 cents on the week and 7.8% below the 4-year median. The EIA price survey resumes in October.
Week of Aug 13, 2026
PADD 4 residential propane closed at $2.266/gal on March 30, down 1.0 cent on the week and 7.8% below the 4-year median. The EIA weekly survey runs October through March and is off-season through September.
About PADD 4 (Rocky Mountain) propane price
The Rocky Mountain region, PADD 4, covers Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. Unlike most consuming regions, PADD 4 produces a meaningful share of its own propane: gas processing in Colorado's DJ Basin and Piceance, and in Utah's Uinta Basin, strips propane out of regional gas production, which leaves this region less dependent on long-haul Gulf Coast pipelines than the Midwest or East Coast are. That local supply does not make delivery cheap. Demand is spread thin across mountain counties, high plains and rural towns at elevation, where the heating season runs longer than the calendar alone would suggest and a delivery route can be a long one.
The result is a retail-minus-wholesale spread, in the table above, shaped more by that dispersed, low-density delivery cost than by distance from the Mont Belvieu spot price the way it is in New England. Wyoming, this site's one unsurveyed PADD 4 state, reports no price of its own; the closest read on it is this regional line.
Colorado and Utah, the district's two most populous states, carry most of the demand behind this number; Montana and Idaho run smaller, more rural markets on longer average delivery routes, where a January storm can close a mountain pass and strand a delivery route for days rather than hours.
For PADD 4's five states, and why its stocks are reported together with PADD 5's, see PADD 4, the Rocky Mountains.