Kentucky propane prices

Kentucky's propane customers are mostly rural: the eastern coalfield counties, the Pennyrile and the farm country west of Louisville, all places where natural gas distribution stops well short of the property line. Poultry houses add a farm load on top of home heating. Supply reaches the state by pipeline from the Gulf Coast and by truck out of regional terminals.

The figure above is EIA's weekly survey average for Kentucky, collected from retail dealers during the October to March heating season and published Wednesday afternoons. No survey runs in the warm months, so the last spring reading stands until the fall. Two lines run on the chart because EIA surveys Kentucky dealers on both sides of the sale: what they pay at the rack and what they charge a residential customer. The lower line moves first, and the retail line follows it with a lag measured in weeks. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 6.3% of occupied Kentucky homes, around the middle of the state rankings.

For context beyond one state, Kentucky sits in the Midwest district: regional prices and Midwest propane stocks. Turning this price into a fill cost takes a tank size and a gauge reading; the propane usage calculator does that arithmetic and prefills the Kentucky price.