State prices
Near normalNebraska propane prices
Current residential price: $1.699/gal, wholesale $0.970/gal. EIA weekly survey (October-March).
Data through Oct 5, 2026 · source last checked Oct 7, 2026 · page revised Oct 7, 2026
Cite
- Residential
- Wholesale
About this data
- Source
- EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program survey
- Series
- Residential retail propane price
- Basis
- Residential, retail
- Geography
- Nebraska propane prices
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 5, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $1.699/gal, 7.5% above the 5-yr median.
Nebraska residential propane stands at $1.699/gal, 7.5% above the 5-yr median through October 5. Wholesale pricing reads $0.970/gal. Year-over-year, the residential price is up 8.4%.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $1.699/gal | n/a | n/a |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $1.699/gal | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $1.699/gal | $1.568/gal | +8.4% |
| vs 5-yr median | $1.699/gal | $1.580/gal | +7.5% |
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 56,135 |
| Share of occupied homes | 7.0% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 797,847 |
| National rank by propane share | #17 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Nebraska residential propane reached $1.642/gal in the Mar 30 survey, up 1.9 cents on the week. The price sits 8.3% below the 4-year median.
An earlier week
Nebraska residential propane closed the heating season at $1.642/gal on March 30, running 8.3% below the 4-year median. The EIA weekly price survey pauses from May through September and resumes in October.
Week of Aug 3, 2026
Nebraska residential propane stands at $1.642/gal, up 1.9 cents on the week. The price sits 8% below the 4-year median.
About Nebraska propane prices
Nebraska's propane year is set by the corn crop as much as by the thermometer. Dryers run through October and November, and home heating demand sits in the rural counties outside the gas systems in Omaha and Lincoln. Supply reaches the state by pipeline from the Gulf Coast and from the Conway hub in Kansas, plus gas processing along the eastern edge.
EIA builds this number by calling retail dealers in Nebraska 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. The second line on the chart is the wholesale price Nebraska dealers pay at the rack. What separates the two lines is the cost of getting a gallon into a tank behind a house, which is delivery, tank service and dealer margin together, not margin alone. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 7.0% of occupied Nebraska homes, around the middle of the state rankings.
Nebraska reports into EIA's Midwest district, so the wider read is Midwest propane prices and the Midwest 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.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Nebraska?
Nebraska's residential propane price is $1.699/gal as of Oct 5, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $0.970/gal on Oct 5, 2026. The chart above carries the full history and the table shows the week-over-week move.
When is propane most expensive in Nebraska?
Residential propane runs highest in the middle of the heating season, ordinarily January and February, and cheapest through the summer while Midwest stocks are building and nothing is drawing on them. The regional wrinkle is that the Midwest season starts before the thermostat does: propane fires grain dryers across the Corn Belt in October and November, and a wet harvest can pull volume hard weeks ahead of heating demand. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.
What is the difference between the residential and wholesale price on this page?
The residential price is what a Nebraska household pays for a delivered gallon: the dealer's own cost plus trucking, tank service and margin. The wholesale price is that dealer cost at the rack, before any of it. The gap between the two is the delivered-service stack, and how propane is priced walks through each layer of it.