State prices
Above normalAlabama propane prices
Current residential price: $3.630/gal, wholesale $1.190/gal. 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
- Residential retail propane price
- Basis
- Residential, retail
- Geography
- Alabama
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.630/gal, 11.7% above the 5-yr median.
Alabama residential propane hit $3.630/gal on October 26, 11.7% above the 5-year median. It rose 1.6% on the week and 5.5% year over year.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.630/gal | $3.573/gal | +1.6% |
| Year over year | $3.630/gal | $3.440/gal | +5.5% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.630/gal | $3.249/gal | +11.7% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Gulf Coast average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.565/gal | $3.521/gal (Oct 5) | $3.630/gal (Oct 26) | $1.087/gal | +59.6 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.462/gal | $3.423/gal (Oct 6) | $3.516/gal (Mar 30) | $0.795/gal | +57.5 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.417/gal | $3.188/gal (Oct 7) | $3.560/gal (Feb 24) | $0.980/gal | +51.0 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.204/gal | $2.946/gal (Oct 2) | $3.358/gal (Feb 19) | $0.853/gal | +42.0 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.357/gal | $3.177/gal (Dec 26) | $3.424/gal (Mar 13) | $0.939/gal | +43.0 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.331/gal | $3.228/gal (Oct 4) | $3.500/gal (Mar 14) | $1.373/gal | +41.2 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 Alabama's residential price minus the Gulf Coast residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 105,250 |
| Share of occupied homes | 5.3% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 1,997,247 |
| National rank by propane share | #27 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Alabama residential propane stood at $3.573/gal, up 1.1% on the week and running 10.7% above the 5-year median. Wholesale propane in the state sits at $1.134/gal. Year-over-year, residential prices have climbed 4.0%.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Alabama residential propane at $3.535/gal on October 12, up 1.4 cents on the week, with wholesale at $1.060/gal. Year-over-year, residential prices stand 2.8% higher than the prior-year level of $3.439/gal. Residential sits 8.6% above the 5-yr median.
Week of Oct 5, 2026
Alabama residential propane reads $3.521/gal, 9.1% above the 5-year median and up 2.9% from a year ago. Wholesale is $0.962/gal.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Alabama residential propane stood at $3.516/gal in the Mar 30 survey, up 0.7 cents from the prior week, with wholesale at $0.969/gal. The price sits 1.9% above the 4-year median and is 3.0 cents lower year over year.
About Alabama propane prices
Alabama's propane year is not driven mostly by home heating. The state is one of the country's largest broiler producers, and poultry houses burn propane for brooder heat through the cool months, a load that builds before residential furnaces do much of anything. Supply comes off the Gulf Coast system running east out of Mont Belvieu, including the Dixie pipeline, which crosses the state carrying propane toward the Carolinas.
EIA builds this number by calling retail dealers in Alabama each week of the October to March heating season and averaging what they report, published Wednesday afternoon. The survey stops for the summer and picks back up in October. The second line on the chart is the wholesale price Alabama dealers pay at the rack. What separates the two lines is the cost of getting a gallon into a tank behind a house, which is delivery, tank service and dealer margin together, not margin alone. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 5.3% of occupied Alabama homes, around the middle of the state rankings.
Alabama reports into EIA's Gulf Coast district, so the wider read is Gulf Coast propane prices and the Gulf Coast inventory behind them. The propane usage calculator will estimate your fill cost at this price: gallons per burner-hour from an appliance's rating, gallons a year, and how long a tank of a given size lasts between deliveries.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Alabama?
Alabama's residential propane price is $3.630/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.190/gal on Oct 26, 2026. The chart above carries the full history and the table shows the week-over-week move.
When is propane most expensive in Alabama?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Alabama's residential price set its season high in March in three of the last five heating seasons and February in two. The season low came in October in four of the last five heating seasons and December in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 27.9 cents a season, and the table above lists each season's high and low week. The regional wrinkle is that the Gulf Coast is where most US propane originates, so retail here sits close to the hub and moves more on the Mont Belvieu price than on delivery cost. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.
How does the Alabama propane price compare with the Gulf Coast average?
Alabama's residential propane price averaged above the Gulf Coast average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 41.2 cents and 57.5 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Alabama was at $3.630/gal against $3.028/gal for the Gulf Coast average. The seasons table above gives the gap season by season, and Gulf Coast propane prices carries the district's own chart.
What is the difference between the residential and wholesale price on this page?
The residential price is what an Alabama household pays for a delivered gallon: the dealer's own cost plus trucking, tank service and margin. The wholesale price is that dealer cost at the rack, before any of it. The gap between the two is the delivered-service stack, and how propane is priced walks through each layer of it.