State prices
Above normalArkansas propane prices
Current residential price: $2.477/gal. 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
- Residential retail propane price
- Basis
- Residential, retail
- Geography
- Arkansas
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.477/gal, 12.3% above the 5-yr median.
Arkansas residential propane stands at $2.477/gal on October 26. The price sits 12.3% above the 5-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.477/gal | $2.469/gal | +0.3% |
| Year over year | $2.477/gal | $2.206/gal | +12.3% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.477/gal | $2.206/gal | +12.3% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | vs Gulf Coast average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $2.405/gal | $2.297/gal (Oct 5) | $2.477/gal (Oct 26) | -56.3 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $2.342/gal | $2.189/gal (Oct 20) | $2.514/gal (Feb 9) | -54.5 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $2.442/gal | $2.097/gal (Oct 14) | $2.676/gal (Feb 17) | -46.2 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $2.271/gal | $2.098/gal (Oct 2) | $2.450/gal (Feb 19) | -51.3 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $2.521/gal | $2.387/gal (Oct 10) | $2.638/gal (Feb 6) | -40.6 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $2.543/gal | $2.310/gal (Oct 4) | $2.877/gal (Mar 14) | -37.5 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 Arkansas's residential price minus the Gulf Coast residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 73,754 |
| Share of occupied homes | 6.1% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 1,205,987 |
| National rank by propane share | #21 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Arkansas residential propane was $2.379/gal through October 12, up 3.6% on the week and 8.5% above the 5-year median.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Arkansas residential propane sits at $2.367/gal in the Mar 30 survey, down 4.2 cents on the week. The price reads 4.9% below the 4-yr median.
About Arkansas propane prices
Arkansas heats a higher share of its homes with propane than most of the South, and much of that demand sits in the Ozarks and the Delta counties where natural gas mains never reached. Poultry adds a second, non-residential load: broiler houses in the northwest corner run propane brooders through cold weather. Barrels arrive by pipeline, rail and truck from Gulf Coast production and from gas processing in Louisiana and Texas.
This is a surveyed average rather than a quote. EIA polls a sample of Arkansas propane dealers weekly through the October to March heating season and publishes the state figure Wednesday afternoon; the series then goes quiet until October. EIA publishes no wholesale price for Arkansas, so the chart carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the Gulf Coast price page. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 6.1% of occupied Arkansas homes, around the middle of the state rankings.
Arkansas reports into EIA's Gulf Coast district, so the wider read is Gulf Coast propane prices and the Gulf Coast inventory behind them. A price per gallon is not a delivery ticket. The propane usage calculator estimates gallons burned and what a fill costs at the current Arkansas survey price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Arkansas?
Arkansas's residential propane price is $2.477/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey. The chart above carries the full history and the table shows the week-over-week move.
When is propane most expensive in Arkansas?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Arkansas's residential price set its season high in February in four of the last five heating seasons 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 41.5 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 Arkansas propane price compare with the Gulf Coast average?
Arkansas's residential propane price averaged below the Gulf Coast average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 37.5 cents and 54.5 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Arkansas was at $2.477/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.
Why is there no wholesale propane price for Arkansas?
EIA publishes no state-level wholesale (rack) price for Arkansas, so the chart above carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the Gulf Coast price page, and the Mont Belvieu spot price is the national wholesale benchmark. How propane is priced walks through the delivered-service stack that separates a rack gallon from a delivered one.