Regional prices
Near normalUnited States 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
- United States
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 5, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.598/gal, 7.5% above the 5-yr median.
Residential propane stood at $2.598/gal through October 5, running 7.5% above the 5-year median. Wholesale propane stood at $1.054/gal the same day.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.598/gal | n/a | n/a |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $2.598/gal | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $2.598/gal | $2.417/gal | +7.5% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.598/gal | $2.417/gal | +7.5% |
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $1.544/gal | $1.563/gal | -1.2% |
| vs 5-yr median | $1.544/gal | $1.488/gal | +3.8% |
| State | Homes heating with propane (ACS 2020-2024) | Share of homes | Nearest surveyed state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 6,554 | 2.4% | Montana |
| Arizona | 80,415 | 2.8% | Utah |
| California | 460,501 | 3.4% | Utah |
| Hawaii | 9,539 | 1.9% | Colorado |
| Nevada | 35,539 | 3.0% | Utah |
| Oregon | 32,351 | 1.9% | Idaho |
| Washington | 91,506 | 3.0% | Idaho |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Residential propane read $2.674/gal in the March 30 survey, 0.2% below the 4-yr median. Prices rose 0.8% over four weeks but remain 0.6% below year-ago.
An earlier week
US residential propane closed the heating season at $2.674/gal on March 30, down 1.6 cents from the year-ago level and 0.2% below the 4-year median. The EIA weekly price survey resumes in October.
Week of Aug 13, 2026
The EIA residential and wholesale propane price survey is paused for the off-season and resumes in October; the latest readings were $2.674/gal residential and $1.041/gal wholesale on March 30, 2026.
About United States propane price
This is EIA's national residential propane price: the weekly average across every state the State Heating Oil and Propane Program surveys, October through March, not a single national market. Its shape over a season is set by the coldest, heaviest-consuming states as much as by the mild ones, so a sharp Midwest or Northeast cold snap can move the US line more than the thermometer in most of the country would suggest. The survey goes quiet April through September, and the last reading holds until the fall restart.
The wholesale line on this chart is the national counterpart: dealers' average cost at the rack, before delivery, tank service and margin. The gap between the two is the delivered-service stack, measured week by week in the residential-minus-wholesale table above. Both lines sit above the physical source of the number, the Mont Belvieu spot price, which trades daily year-round and is where every regional rack price starts.
The figure itself comes from EIA's State Heating Oil and Propane Program, a weekly telephone survey of retail dealers in each of the 38 surveyed states, run October through March and published every Wednesday afternoon. This US line is the volume-weighted average of those state surveys, not a separate national poll, so it moves hardest when the states that use the most propane, mainly the Midwest and Northeast, turn colder. The state map breaks the figure back out by state and regional prices breaks it out by PADD.
The seven West Coast states in the table above make up PADD 5, the one district with no residential price line; the PADD guide defines all five districts.