State prices
Near normalOhio propane prices
Current residential price: $2.572/gal, wholesale $1.065/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
- Ohio propane prices
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 5, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.572/gal, 1.3% above the 5-yr median.
Ohio residential propane priced at $2.572/gal as of October 5, 1.3% above the 5-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.572/gal | n/a | n/a |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $2.572/gal | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $2.572/gal | $2.539/gal | +1.3% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.572/gal | $2.539/gal | +1.3% |
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 274,581 |
| Share of occupied homes | 5.6% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 4,863,191 |
| National rank by propane share | #24 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Ohio residential propane stood at $2.695/gal in the Mar 30 survey. The price sat 0.8% below the 4-yr median. Year over year it was down 1.3%.
An earlier week
The EIA weekly price survey is off-season until October; the latest reading was $2.695/gal on March 30.
Week of Aug 3, 2026
Ohio propane at $2.695/gal, down 0.4 cents on the week and 1% below the 4-year median. The EIA survey ends for the season and resumes in October.
About Ohio propane prices
Ohio produces propane now. Utica shale processing and fractionation in the eastern counties strip natural gas liquids out of the gas stream, and the state has refinery output as well, which puts supply closer to Ohio's customers than to most of the Midwest's. Demand is rural home heating across the Appalachian counties and the farm belt, plus grain drying in a wet fall.
This is a surveyed average rather than a quote. EIA polls a sample of Ohio 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 also surveys a wholesale price for Ohio, plotted as the lower line. The distance between the two is the delivered-service stack, and it widens when the rack falls faster than dealers reprice. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 5.6% of occupied Ohio homes, around the middle of the state rankings.
The regional numbers around this price are Midwest propane prices and Midwest propane stocks, the inventory that has to cover the winter. A price per gallon is not a delivery ticket. The propane usage calculator estimates gallons burned and what a fill costs at the current Ohio survey price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Ohio?
Ohio's residential propane price is $2.572/gal as of Oct 5, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.065/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 Ohio?
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 Ohio 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.