Regional prices
Above normalPADD 1A (New England) propane price
Residential propane, EIA weekly survey (October-March)
Data through Oct 26, 2026 · source last checked Oct 31, 2026 · page revised Oct 29, 2026
Cite
- Residential
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 1A (New England)
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.917/gal, 12.7% above the 5-yr median.
PADD 1A residential propane stands at $3.917/gal through October 26, up 1.2% on the week. The price is 13.4% above year-ago levels and sits 12.7% above the 5-year median for this week.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.917/gal | $3.869/gal | +1.2% |
| Year over year | $3.917/gal | $3.453/gal | +13.4% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.917/gal | $3.476/gal | +12.7% |
| State | Residential | vs New England average |
|---|---|---|
| Maine | $3.679/gal | -23.8 cents |
| Massachusetts | $3.717/gal | -20.0 cents |
| New Hampshire | $3.904/gal | -1.3 cents |
| Vermont | $3.930/gal | +1.3 cents |
| Rhode Island | $4.116/gal | +19.9 cents |
| Connecticut | $4.315/gal | +39.8 cents |
Residential prices from EIA's weekly survey for the same week. The middle column is each state's price minus the New England residential average, per gallon.
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | vs US average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.825/gal | $3.744/gal (Oct 5) | $3.917/gal (Oct 26) | +$1.17 |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.564/gal | $3.440/gal (Nov 3) | $3.766/gal (Mar 30) | +$1.01 |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.651/gal | $3.425/gal (Oct 7) | $3.848/gal (Mar 3) | +$1.06 |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.441/gal | $3.295/gal (Oct 2) | $3.613/gal (Feb 19) | +94.5 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.582/gal | $3.537/gal (Dec 26) | $3.622/gal (Nov 7) | +89.8 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.618/gal | $3.375/gal (Oct 4) | $4.000/gal (Mar 14) | +84.6 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 New England residential average minus the US residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
PADD 1A residential propane reached $3.766/gal in the March 30 survey, up 0.6% from the prior week. The price sits 2% above the 4-year median and 3.1% higher than four weeks ago, though it is down 0.9% from the same week last year.
About PADD 1A (New England) propane price
New England, PADD 1A, covers Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. It is the smallest of the three East Coast price districts and the one furthest from Gulf Coast pipelines: no propane is produced here and none arrives by trunk line, so every gallon comes in by ship, rail or truck. Heating oil still heats more New England homes than propane does, which concentrates propane demand in the towns and newer subdivisions the gas mains never reached, plus a delivered-fuel market that competes directly with oil on price.
EIA does not publish a separate wholesale price for New England, so this chart carries the residential line alone; the wholesale side of the delivery-cost stack has to be read off the East Coast (PADD 1) price instead, which does carry both lines. What that means in practice: a winter storm that closes a port or a road here moves the delivered price on a freight problem, not a Mont Belvieu problem, which is why this region's price can diverge from the Gulf Coast hub more than any other on the site.
Propane's importance varies sharply within the six states: Vermont and New Hampshire lean on it far more than the region average, since neither has much natural gas service outside a handful of towns, while urban Massachusetts and Rhode Island run mostly on gas and propane fills in around the edges. See New England propane stocks for the regional inventory cushion behind this price.
New England is PADD 1A, one of the three parts of the East Coast district; the PADD guide lists the states in all three.
Common questions
What is the propane price in New England?
New England residential propane averaged $3.917/gal in EIA's Oct 26, 2026 survey. That was $1.19 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 New England state has the cheapest propane?
In the Oct 26, 2026 survey, Maine had the lowest residential price of the six states EIA surveyed in New England, at $3.679/gal, and Connecticut the highest, at $4.315/gal: a spread of 63.6 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 in New England?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, New England residential propane set its season high in March in three of the last five heating seasons, November in one and February in one. The season low came in October in three of the last five heating seasons, November in one and December in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 35.5 cents a season, and the seasons table above lists each high and low week. 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.