Regional prices
Out of seasonPADD 1A (New England) propane price
Residential propane, EIA weekly survey (October-March)
Data through Mar 30, 2026 · source last checked Sep 2, 2026 · page revised Aug 19, 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
- Mar 30, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.766/gal, 2% above the 4-yr median. The EIA weekly price survey runs October through March; the latest reading is $3.766/gal from Mar 30, 2026. The survey resumes in October.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| vs 4-yr median | $3.766/gal | $3.692/gal | +2.0% |
| Year over year | $3.766/gal | $3.801/gal | -0.9% |
| vs 4 weeks ago | $3.766/gal | $3.654/gal | +3.1% |
| Week over week | $3.766/gal | $3.742/gal | +0.6% |
Previous weeks
Week of Aug 13, 2026
New England residential propane rose 2.4 cents on the week to $3.766 per gallon. The price sits 2% above the 4-year median. Year-over-year it is down 3.5 cents.
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.