Idaho propane prices

Idaho produces no propane of its own. Supply arrives by pipeline and rail from Rockies gas plants and from Canada, over distances that put real freight into the delivered price in the mountain counties. Demand is spread thin across farm country in the south and rural and resort towns in the north, on a heating season that runs long at elevation.

EIA builds this number by calling retail dealers in Idaho each week of the October to March heating season and averaging what they report, published Wednesday afternoon. The survey stops for the summer and picks back up in October. EIA publishes no wholesale price for Idaho, so the chart carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the Rocky Mountain price page. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 5.3% of occupied Idaho homes, around the middle of the state rankings.

Idaho reports into EIA's Rocky Mountain district, so the wider read is Rocky Mountain propane prices and the Rockies and West Coast inventory behind them. The propane usage calculator will estimate your fill cost at this price: gallons per burner-hour from an appliance's rating, gallons a year, and how long a tank of a given size lasts between deliveries.