Regional prices
Above normalPADD 2 (Midwest) 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 2 (Midwest)
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.199/gal, 13.5% above the 5-yr median.
PADD 2 residential propane hit $2.199/gal through Oct 26, up 2.0% on the week and 13.5% above the 5-yr median. Wholesale propane read $1.263/gal. Year over year, residential is up 13.9%.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.199/gal | $2.156/gal | +2.0% |
| Year over year | $2.199/gal | $1.931/gal | +13.9% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.199/gal | $1.937/gal | +13.5% |
| State | Residential | vs Midwest average | Wholesale |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | $1.745/gal | -45.4 cents | $1.174/gal |
| Iowa | $1.746/gal | -45.3 cents | $1.224/gal |
| Nebraska | $1.825/gal | -37.4 cents | $1.194/gal |
| Illinois | $1.948/gal | -25.1 cents | $1.219/gal |
| South Dakota | $1.951/gal | -24.8 cents | $1.213/gal |
| Wisconsin | $2.007/gal | -19.2 cents | $1.295/gal |
| Minnesota | $2.050/gal | -14.9 cents | $1.265/gal |
| Kansas | $2.100/gal | -9.9 cents | $1.151/gal |
| Missouri | $2.234/gal | +3.5 cents | $1.252/gal |
| Oklahoma | $2.383/gal | +18.4 cents | $1.243/gal |
| Michigan | $2.458/gal | +25.9 cents | $1.283/gal |
| Indiana | $2.617/gal | +41.8 cents | $1.278/gal |
| Ohio | $2.700/gal | +50.1 cents | $1.367/gal |
| Kentucky | $2.836/gal | +63.7 cents | not surveyed |
| Tennessee | $3.277/gal | +$1.08 | $1.466/gal |
Residential prices from EIA's weekly survey for the same week. The middle column is each state's price minus the Midwest residential average, per gallon. "Not surveyed" means EIA published no wholesale price for it that week.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $0.936/gal | $0.939/gal | -0.3% |
| Year over year | $0.936/gal | $1.151/gal | -18.7% |
| vs 5-yr median | $0.936/gal | $1.063/gal | -11.9% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs US average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $2.131/gal | $2.055/gal (Oct 5) | $2.199/gal (Oct 26) | $1.157/gal | -52.8 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $2.068/gal | $1.904/gal (Oct 6) | $2.213/gal (Feb 9) | $0.893/gal | -48.5 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $2.091/gal | $1.906/gal (Oct 7) | $2.254/gal (Feb 24) | $1.001/gal | -50.0 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $2.016/gal | $1.885/gal (Oct 2) | $2.121/gal (Feb 12) | $0.910/gal | -48.0 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $2.274/gal | $2.239/gal (Oct 24) | $2.301/gal (Jan 23) | $0.996/gal | -40.9 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $2.407/gal | $2.232/gal (Oct 4) | $2.623/gal (Mar 14) | $1.438/gal | -36.5 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 Midwest residential average minus the US residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Midwest residential propane hit $2.156 per gallon through October 19, up 2.1% on the week. Year over year the price is up 12.3%, running 11.8% above the five-year median.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Midwest residential propane rose 5.6 cents on the week to $2.112/gal. Wholesale in the EIA survey read $1.122/gal. Residential prices run 9.7% above the 5-year median.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
PADD 2 residential propane read $2.184/gal in the Mar 30 survey, down 1 cent on the week. Wholesale read $0.992/gal. The residential price sits 1.9% below the 4-year median.
About PADD 2 (Midwest) propane price
The Midwest, PADD 2, covers fifteen states from Ohio to North Dakota and south to Oklahoma and Tennessee, the largest price district on this site by state count. Its season starts before the thermostat does: propane fires grain dryers across the Corn Belt every fall, and a wet harvest can pull volume hard in October and November, weeks ahead of real heating demand. Supply arrives mainly by pipeline from the Gulf Coast, with the inland Conway, Kansas hub acting as this region's own wholesale reference point, priced separately from and usually watched alongside Mont Belvieu.
Because Conway sits much closer to Midwest demand than the Gulf Coast does, this region's retail-minus-wholesale spread, in the table above, often behaves differently than a simple function of the Mont Belvieu price would predict; the Conway-to-Belvieu gap itself is one of the clearest signals of Midwest tightness. The winter of 2013-14, when a wet harvest, brutal cold and a pipeline reversal collided, is the reference case for how fast this region's cushion can thin; see Midwest propane stocks for the inventory side of that story.
The fifteen states do not all run the same season. Grain-drying demand concentrates in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the Dakotas; the Oklahoma and Kansas end of the district leans more on wheat and cattle country than on corn. A wet Iowa harvest and a dry Kansas one can pull this one PADD 2 number in different directions within the same month.
For a plain definition of PADD 2 and the full list of its fifteen states, see PADD 2, the Midwest.
Common questions
What is the propane price in the Midwest?
Midwest residential propane averaged $2.199/gal in EIA's Oct 26, 2026 survey, with wholesale (rack) propane at $1.263/gal the same week. That was 53.1 cents below the US average of $2.730/gal. The survey runs weekly from October through March, and the chart above carries the full history.
Which Midwest state has the cheapest propane?
In the Oct 26, 2026 survey, North Dakota had the lowest residential price of the 15 states EIA surveyed in the Midwest, at $1.745/gal, and Tennessee the highest, at $3.277/gal: a spread of $1.53 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 the Midwest?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Midwest residential propane set its season high in February in three of the last five heating seasons, January in one and March in one. The season low came in October in each of the last five heating seasons. From low to high the price moved an average of 26.9 cents a season, and the seasons table above lists each high and low week. The regional wrinkle is that the Midwest season starts before the thermostat does: propane fires grain dryers across the Corn Belt in October and November, and a wet harvest can pull volume hard weeks ahead of heating demand. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.