Propane Price Per Gallon: $2.674 Residential (Latest EIA Survey)
Tracking the US residential propane price per gallon, weekly, from the EIA Weekly Heating Oil and Propane Survey. Built for homeowners deciding when to top up, not for traders. The chart is the answer.
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Where the propane price per gallon stands now
For the week ending 30 March 2026, the US average residential propane price was $2.674 per gallon, the final reading of the 2025-2026 heating season under the EIA Weekly Heating Oil and Propane Survey. The week-on-week move was -0.4c per gallon. Compared with the same week of 2025, residential propane is -0.6% (EIA).
Across the full October-to-March heating season, the US average rose from $2.417 in the first week of October to $2.674 at the end of March, an increase of +25.7c cents per gallon. EIA does not survey residential prices April through September; when the survey reopens in October, the opening reading has been the cheapest published figure of the season in 7 of the last 12 years (see the 5-season overlay).
The Mont Belvieu wholesale spot price was around $0.835 per gallon for the same week (EIA daily series). The residential-to-wholesale spread is $1.84 per gallon: that spread covers pipeline transport, regional terminal storage, tanker truck delivery, distributor margin, tank rental amortisation, and the seasonality risk premium. We break the spread down at Wholesale vs retail.
Propane price per gallon by state
This site carries per-state pages for the 14 states below, drawn from the 38 state series the EIA survey publishes weekly. Prices across the covered states range from $1.66 (Iowa, one of the two lowest in the survey thanks to rural-cooperative density and Conway hub access) to $3.747 (New York, where pipeline-end supply and upstate distribution distances raise the delivered cost).
| State | Latest ($/gal) | PADD | vs national | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | $2.989 | PADD 3 | +0.31 | chart |
| Ohio | $2.695 | PADD 2 | +0.02 | chart |
| Michigan | $2.370 | PADD 2 | -0.30 | chart |
| North Carolina | $3.450 | PADD 1C | +0.78 | chart |
| Iowa | $1.660 | PADD 2 | -1.01 | chart |
| Pennsylvania | $3.083 | PADD 1B | +0.41 | chart |
| Kentucky | $2.936 | PADD 2 | +0.26 | chart |
| Wisconsin | $2.066 | PADD 2 | -0.61 | chart |
| New York | $3.747 | PADD 1B | +1.07 | chart |
| Massachusetts | $3.649 | PADD 1A | +0.98 | chart |
| Indiana | $2.634 | PADD 2 | -0.04 | chart |
| Illinois | $2.026 | PADD 2 | -0.65 | chart |
| Minnesota | $2.056 | PADD 2 | -0.62 | chart |
| Maine | $3.523 | PADD 1A | +0.85 | chart |
State series: e.g. Texas W_EPLLPA_PRS_STX_DPG. Where state-level weekly figures are unavailable in the off-season, state pages fall back to the regional PADD figure with a note in the chart caption.
This year vs the last five years
The 2025-2026 heating season tracked below the 5-year average for most of the winter, then crossed above it after the late-January acceleration and held there to the survey close. Across the published EIA archive, residential propane usually peaks in January or February, and the October survey open is the cheapest published reading in most years, with year-to-year amplitude varying by winter severity and regional inventory. The 5-season overlay chart on /seasonal-patterns/ shows the shape directly.
Forecast
The EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) is the only forecast quoted on this site. The most recent STEO forecasts the 2026-2027 winter residential propane price near the 2025-2026 average, with the familiar caveat that cold-snap surges, supply disruptions, and crude shocks are not built into the central case. We do not invent forecasts; the page at /forecast/ quotes STEO verbatim with the issue date.
Why is residential propane so much higher than wholesale?
The current spread between the US residential average ($2.674) and Mont Belvieu wholesale spot ($0.835) is $1.84 per gallon. That gap covers pipeline transport, regional terminal storage, tanker truck delivery, local distributor margin, tank rental amortisation, the seasonality risk premium, and regulatory fees. Mont Belvieu is the NGL spot benchmark, not the price any homeowner can transact at; OPIS publishes the daily reference quote. Full breakdown at Wholesale vs retail.
Methodology
This site refreshes from the EIA Weekly Heating Oil and Propane Survey every Wednesday afternoon during the heating season (October through March), and from the EIA Mont Belvieu daily spot series year-round (EIA publishes no residential survey April through September). The refresh script is documented at /methodology/. Every interpretive paragraph cites EIA, FRED, OPIS, NPGA, USDA, or a state agency, with a date.
Related pages on this site
Market structure
- Mont Belvieu spot price: today's benchmark
- Wholesale propane price per gallon
- Wholesale vs retail: the spread, broken down
- How LPG exports move the propane price
- HD-5 propane specification and price
By cohort and use case
- Residential heating propane price
- Commercial vs residential
- Agricultural propane price
- Restaurant propane price
- Forklift propane price and 33lb cylinder
- Autogas (propane) price for fleets
- Camping propane price (1lb and 20lb)
By supplier, season, and year
- AmeriGas propane price · Suburban · Ferrellgas / Blue Rhino · Costco
- Winter propane price 2025-2026 · Summer (off-season buying)
- 2026 year tracker · History 2014-2026 · Polar vortex 2014
BTU-equivalent comparisons
- Propane vs natural gas: price per BTU
- Propane vs heating oil: price per BTU
- Propane vs electricity: cost per BTU
Reference
- Propane price per gallon by state
- Seasonal patterns: when prices rise and fall
- 5-year price chart
- EIA STEO forecast
- How prices are set
- FAQ · Glossary · Methodology
For household cost estimation
PropanePricePerGallon.com tracks the market price. For household budget calculation including tank size, climate zone, annual gallons used, and fills needed across the heating season, our sister site propanecostpergallon.com runs the cost calculator. This is the differentiation contract: the two sites are halves of one decision tree.