Utah propane prices

Utah runs on natural gas. Mains serve most of the Wasatch Front and the delivered-fuel market is small by comparison, which leaves propane to the rural counties, the canyon communities and the high desert towns. Refineries north of Salt Lake City and gas processing in the Uinta Basin supply much of that demand, so the freight leg behind a Utah price is shorter than in most western states.

EIA builds this number by calling retail dealers in Utah 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 Utah, 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 2.6% of occupied Utah homes, below the national middle.

The regional numbers around this price are Rocky Mountain propane prices and Rockies and West Coast propane stocks, the inventory that has to cover the winter. 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.