State prices
Above normalKansas propane prices
Current residential price: $2.100/gal, wholesale $1.151/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
- Kansas
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.100/gal, 18% above the 5-yr median.
Kansas residential propane is at $2.100/gal, 18% above the 5-year median as the heating season opens. Prices rose 1.6% on the week and 18% year-over-year. The wholesale benchmark sits at $1.151/gal.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.100/gal | $2.067/gal | +1.6% |
| Year over year | $2.100/gal | $1.780/gal | +18.0% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.100/gal | $1.780/gal | +18.0% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Midwest average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $2.050/gal | $2.011/gal (Oct 5) | $2.100/gal (Oct 26) | $1.054/gal | -8.0 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $1.899/gal | $1.772/gal (Oct 20) | $1.995/gal (Jan 26) | $0.706/gal | -16.9 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $1.860/gal | $1.691/gal (Oct 7) | $1.999/gal (Feb 24) | $0.887/gal | -23.1 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $1.794/gal | $1.715/gal (Oct 9) | $1.898/gal (Feb 19) | $0.797/gal | -22.3 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $2.071/gal | $2.038/gal (Oct 3) | $2.110/gal (Jan 23) | $0.887/gal | -20.2 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $2.255/gal | $2.154/gal (Oct 4) | $2.426/gal (Mar 14) | $1.384/gal | -15.2 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 Kansas's residential price minus the Midwest residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 91,963 |
| Share of occupied homes | 7.8% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 1,174,060 |
| National rank by propane share | #15 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Kansas residential propane was $1.977/gal in the EIA survey dated March 30, 2026, up 0.6 cents from the week before and 1% below the 4-year median. Year over year the price has risen 2.4 cents.
About Kansas propane prices
Kansas is home to Conway, the inland hub where the country's second-largest concentration of natural gas liquids storage sits in salt caverns in the center of the state. Propane traded at Conway prices separately from Mont Belvieu, and the gap between the two hubs is one of the clearest signals that Midwest supply has tightened. In-state demand is grain drying, farm use and rural home heating, on a base of local gas processing.
The price above comes from EIA's State Heating Oil and Propane Program, which surveys a sample of retail dealers in Kansas 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 Kansas 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 7.8% of occupied Kansas homes, well above the national middle. That is a large block of homes to keep supplied through a cold January.
For context beyond one state, Kansas sits in the Midwest district: regional prices and Midwest 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 Kansas?
Kansas's residential propane price is $2.100/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.151/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 Kansas?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Kansas's residential price set its season high in January in two of the last five heating seasons, February in two 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 21.2 cents a season, and the table above lists each season's 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.
How does the Kansas propane price compare with the Midwest average?
Kansas's residential propane price averaged below the Midwest average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 15.2 cents and 23.1 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Kansas was at $2.100/gal against $2.199/gal for the Midwest average. The seasons table above gives the gap season by season, and Midwest 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 Kansas 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.