State prices
Near normalRhode Island propane prices
Current residential price: $3.816/gal. EIA weekly survey (October-March).
Data through Oct 5, 2026 · source last checked Oct 7, 2026 · page revised Oct 7, 2026
Cite
- Residential
About this data
- Source
- EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program survey
- Series
- Residential retail propane price
- Basis
- Residential, retail
- Geography
- Rhode Island propane prices
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 5, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.816/gal, 4.7% above the 5-yr median.
Rhode Island residential propane stands at $3.816/gal through October 5, according to EIA's weekly survey. The price sits 4.7% above the 5-yr median, a premium as heating season opens.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.816/gal | n/a | n/a |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $3.816/gal | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $3.816/gal | $3.644/gal | +4.7% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.816/gal | $3.644/gal | +4.7% |
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 22,210 |
| Share of occupied homes | 5.0% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 441,570 |
| National rank by propane share | #29 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Rhode Island residential propane stood at $3.757/gal in the March 30, 2026 EIA weekly survey, 2.1% above the 4-year median. Prices rose 2.3% over the four weeks prior and fell 0.9% on the week, with year-over-year change essentially flat.
An earlier week
Rhode Island residential propane fell 3.5 cents on the week to $3.757/gal. The price sits 2.1% above the 4-year median. This is the final reading before the weekly price survey pauses for the off-season.
Week of Aug 3, 2026
Rhode Island residential propane prices fell to $3.757/gal on Mar 30, down 3.5 cents from the prior week. The price stands 2% above the 4-year median as the EIA survey closes until October.
About Rhode Island propane prices
Rhode Island has the smallest propane market of any state EIA surveys. Natural gas serves most of the housing stock, and propane fills in around it: the rural western towns, cooking and water heating in homes that are otherwise on gas, and cylinder demand. Supply arrives through Providence and the terminals around Narragansett Bay, or over the road from Massachusetts and Connecticut.
EIA builds this number by calling retail dealers in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island, so the chart carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the East Coast price page. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 5.0% of occupied Rhode Island homes, around the middle of the state rankings.
For context beyond one state, Rhode Island sits in the New England district: regional prices and New England propane stocks. 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 Rhode Island?
Rhode Island's residential propane price is $3.816/gal as of Oct 5, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey. The chart above carries the full history and the table shows the week-over-week move.
When is propane most expensive in Rhode Island?
Residential propane runs highest in the middle of the heating season, ordinarily January and February, and cheapest through the summer while New England stocks are building and nothing is drawing on them. The regional wrinkle is that New England has no propane production and no trunk pipeline of its own, so a cold snap here shows up first as a delivery problem: barrels arriving by ship, rail and truck against a small storage base. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.
Why is there no wholesale propane price for Rhode Island?
EIA publishes no state-level wholesale (rack) price for Rhode Island, so the chart above carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the East Coast price page, and the Mont Belvieu spot price is the national wholesale benchmark. How propane is priced walks through the delivered-service stack that separates a rack gallon from a delivered one.