State prices
Near normalColorado propane prices
Current residential price: $2.372/gal, wholesale $1.229/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
- Colorado
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.372/gal, 7.9% above the 5-yr median.
Colorado residential propane rose to $2.372/gal through October 26, up 1.0 cent on the week and 27 cents from year-ago levels. The price runs 7.9% above the 5-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.372/gal | $2.362/gal | +0.4% |
| Year over year | $2.372/gal | $2.107/gal | +12.6% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.372/gal | $2.198/gal | +7.9% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Rocky Mountain average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $2.314/gal | $2.261/gal (Oct 5) | $2.372/gal (Oct 26) | $1.126/gal | +1.6 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $2.223/gal | $2.078/gal (Oct 6) | $2.304/gal (Mar 23) | $0.824/gal | +3.1 cents |
| 2024-25 | 25 | $2.252/gal | $2.045/gal (Oct 7) | $2.399/gal (Feb 17) | $1.016/gal | -2.7 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $2.261/gal | $2.153/gal (Oct 2) | $2.382/gal (Feb 5) | $0.928/gal | +0.7 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $2.473/gal | $2.402/gal (Oct 31) | $2.538/gal (Feb 13) | $1.070/gal | -0.6 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $2.599/gal | $2.441/gal (Oct 4) | $2.811/gal (Mar 21) | $1.456/gal | +7.1 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 Colorado's residential price minus the Rocky Mountain residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 115,183 |
| Share of occupied homes | 4.9% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 2,374,218 |
| National rank by propane share | #31 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Colorado residential propane reached $2.362/gal through October 19, up 11.8% from the prior year and 9% above the five-year median. Wholesale tracked $1.187/gal.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Colorado residential propane stands at $2.262/gal, up 8.0% from a year ago and flat week over week. The price sits 4.8% above the 5-year median.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Colorado residential propane priced $2.302/gal in the final survey week of March, 5.2% below the 4-year median. The wholesale benchmark ran $0.973/gal. The EIA survey pauses until October.
About Colorado propane prices
Colorado makes its own propane. Gas processing plants in the DJ Basin northeast of Denver and in the Piceance on the Western Slope strip it out of the raw gas stream, which leaves the state less dependent on long-haul pipelines from the Gulf Coast than most of the Midwest is. Demand concentrates in the mountain counties and on the eastern plains, where houses sit past the end of the gas mains and the heating season runs long at altitude.
The price above comes from EIA's State Heating Oil and Propane Program, which surveys a sample of retail dealers in Colorado once a week and publishes the state average on Wednesday afternoon. It runs October through March only, so nothing new prints between April and September. Two lines run on the chart because EIA surveys Colorado dealers on both sides of the sale: what they pay at the rack and what they charge a residential customer. The lower line moves first, and the retail line follows it with a lag measured in weeks. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 4.9% of occupied Colorado homes, below the national middle.
For context beyond one state, Colorado sits in the Rocky Mountain district: regional prices and Rockies and West Coast propane stocks. Estimate your fill cost with the propane usage calculator, which works from tank size, gauge reading and what the household burns.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Colorado?
Colorado's residential propane price is $2.372/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.229/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 Colorado?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Colorado's residential price set its season high in February in three of the last five heating seasons and March in two. The season low came in October in each of the last five heating seasons. From low to high the price moved an average of 26.3 cents a season, and the table above lists each season's high and low week. The regional wrinkle is that Rocky Mountain demand is spread thin across mountain counties and high plains, where the heating season runs long and a delivery route can be a long one. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.
How does the Colorado propane price compare with the Rocky Mountain average?
Over the last five heating seasons, Colorado's residential propane price averaged above the Rocky Mountain average in three and below it in two. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Colorado was at $2.372/gal against $2.377/gal for the Rocky Mountain average. The seasons table above gives the gap season by season, and Rocky Mountain 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 a Colorado 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.