Arkansas propane prices

Arkansas heats a higher share of its homes with propane than most of the South, and much of that demand sits in the Ozarks and the Delta counties where natural gas mains never reached. Poultry adds a second, non-residential load: broiler houses in the northwest corner run propane brooders through cold weather. Barrels arrive by pipeline, rail and truck from Gulf Coast production and from gas processing in Louisiana and Texas.

This is a surveyed average rather than a quote. EIA polls a sample of Arkansas propane dealers weekly through the October to March heating season and publishes the state figure Wednesday afternoon; the series then goes quiet until October. EIA publishes no wholesale price for Arkansas, so the chart carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the Gulf Coast price page. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 6.1% of occupied Arkansas homes, around the middle of the state rankings.

Arkansas reports into EIA's Gulf Coast district, so the wider read is Gulf Coast propane prices and the Gulf Coast inventory behind them. A price per gallon is not a delivery ticket. The propane usage calculator estimates gallons burned and what a fill costs at the current Arkansas survey price.