Regional prices
Above normalPADD 1 (East Coast) propane price
Residential and wholesale propane, EIA weekly survey (October-March)
Data through Oct 26, 2026 · source last checked Oct 31, 2026 · page revised Oct 29, 2026
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- Residential
- Wholesale
About this data
- Source
- EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program survey
- Series
- Propane price, residential and wholesale/resale
- Basis
- Residential and wholesale/resale
- Geography
- PADD 1 (East Coast)
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.739/gal, 12.2% above the 5-yr median.
Residential propane on the East Coast reached $3.739/gal through October 26, up 1.2% from the prior week. The price runs 12.2% above a year ago and 12.2% above the 5-yr median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.739/gal | $3.693/gal | +1.2% |
| Year over year | $3.739/gal | $3.333/gal | +12.2% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.739/gal | $3.333/gal | +12.2% |
| District | Residential | vs East Coast average | Wholesale |
|---|---|---|---|
| PADD 1B (Central Atlantic) | $3.639/gal | -10.0 cents | $1.430/gal |
| PADD 1C (Lower Atlantic) | $3.699/gal | -4.0 cents | $1.286/gal |
| PADD 1A (New England) | $3.917/gal | +17.8 cents | not surveyed |
Residential prices from EIA's weekly survey for the same week. The middle column is each district's price minus the East Coast residential average, per gallon. "Not surveyed" means EIA published no wholesale price for it that week.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.367/gal | $2.376/gal | -0.4% |
| Year over year | $2.367/gal | $2.409/gal | -1.7% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.367/gal | $2.296/gal | +3.1% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs US average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.667/gal | $3.612/gal (Oct 5) | $3.739/gal (Oct 26) | $1.264/gal | +$1.01 |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.436/gal | $3.325/gal (Oct 13) | $3.596/gal (Mar 30) | $1.031/gal | +88.3 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.472/gal | $3.281/gal (Oct 7) | $3.643/gal (Feb 17) | $1.150/gal | +88.0 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.329/gal | $3.215/gal (Oct 23) | $3.468/gal (Feb 19) | $1.001/gal | +83.3 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.394/gal | $3.360/gal (Mar 27) | $3.421/gal (Jan 30) | $1.092/gal | +71.0 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.456/gal | $3.256/gal (Oct 4) | $3.761/gal (Mar 14) | $1.521/gal | +68.4 cents |
Each season runs October through March. The average is the simple mean of that season's weekly readings, and the low and high name their survey week. The last column is the East Coast residential average minus the US residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
PADD 1 residential propane rose 7 cents to $3.693/gal through Oct 19, and sits 10.9% above the 5-yr median. Wholesale at the same date read $1.317/gal.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Residential propane on the East Coast read $3.596/gal in the Mar 30 survey, up 1.2 cents on the week. The level sits 2.4% above the 4-year median.
About PADD 1 (East Coast) propane price
PADD 1, the East Coast, is the sum of the three sub-districts this site also pages on their own: New England (1A), the Central Atlantic (1B, the biggest of the three by demand) and the Lower Atlantic (1C). Together they run from Maine to West Virginia. The region produces essentially no propane of its own, so the price here reflects delivery cost more than it does anywhere the barrel originates: pipeline and rail from the Gulf Coast and Marcellus gas processing, marine imports at coastal terminals, and truck the rest of the way. A hard winter shows up here first as a logistics story, trucks and terminal throughput, before it shows up as a supply story.
Because a PADD 1 gallon travels further than a Gulf Coast one, the retail-minus-wholesale spread tends to run wider here than in producing regions; the residential-minus-wholesale table above tracks it. The three sub-districts do not move in lockstep: New England leans hardest on delivered fuel and carries no EIA wholesale line of its own (it reports into this PADD 1 line instead), the Central Atlantic carries the most volume, and the Lower Atlantic runs a milder, shallower season. See each on its own page for the state list behind it.
The three sub-districts run their own weekly retail surveys on EIA's usual October-March calendar, published Wednesday afternoons, and this aggregate line is the volume-weighted average of the three: it gets pulled hardest by whichever sub-district is heating the most homes in a given week, ordinarily the Central Atlantic given its size.
Which seventeen states and the District of Columbia make up PADD 1, and how EIA splits them into three sub-districts, is spelled out in what PADD 1 is.
Common questions
What is the propane price on the East Coast?
East Coast residential propane averaged $3.739/gal in EIA's Oct 26, 2026 survey, with wholesale (rack) propane at $1.372/gal the same week. That was $1.01 above the US average of $2.730/gal. The survey runs weekly from October through March, and the chart above carries the full history.
Which East Coast sub-district has the cheapest propane?
In the Oct 26, 2026 survey, PADD 1B (Central Atlantic) had the lowest residential price of the three sub-districts EIA surveyed on the East Coast, at $3.639/gal, and PADD 1A (New England) the highest, at $3.917/gal: a spread of 27.8 cents a gallon. The table above lists every one. Delivered prices also vary from house to house with tank ownership, volume and distance from supply.
When is propane most expensive on the East Coast?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, East Coast residential propane set its season high in February in two of the last five heating seasons, March in two and January in one. The season low came in October in four of the last five heating seasons and March in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 29.0 cents a season, and the seasons table above lists each high and low week. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.