PADD 1C (Lower Atlantic) propane price

The Lower Atlantic, PADD 1C, covers Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. It sits at the end of the Dixie pipeline, the line that carries Gulf Coast propane across the Southeast and terminates near Apex, North Carolina, an unusually direct pipeline connection for an East Coast region and the reason supply here runs steadier than further north. Demand mixes rural home heating in the Piedmont and the mountains with a farm season the thermostat does not explain: poultry and turkey houses running brooders and tobacco barns curing the crop, both of which draw ahead of any real cold.

Winters are milder here than the rest of the East Coast, so the seasonal price rise, and the draw on Lower Atlantic propane stocks behind it, is typically shallower than New England's or the Central Atlantic's. The Dixie pipeline connection also keeps the retail-wholesale spread, tracked on Lower Atlantic retail vs wholesale, from running as wide as it does in the two sub-districts north of it.

Georgia alone is the country's largest broiler producer, and its brooder-heat demand often shows in this district's early-season readings before a single furnace further north has fired for the winter. North Carolina's flue-cured tobacco barns add a second, late-summer crop load the seasonal heating calendar does not capture at all.