State prices
Above normalMaine propane prices
Current residential price: $3.679/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
- Maine
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.679/gal, 15.9% above the 5-yr median.
Maine residential propane stands at $3.679/gal, 15.9% above the 5-year median heading into the heating season. The price is up 16.2% from a year ago. Week-over-week, prices were down 0.2%.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.679/gal | $3.687/gal | -0.2% |
| Year over year | $3.679/gal | $3.165/gal | +16.2% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.679/gal | $3.173/gal | +15.9% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | vs New England average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.606/gal | $3.522/gal (Oct 5) | $3.687/gal (Oct 19) | -22.0 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.294/gal | $3.122/gal (Oct 13) | $3.535/gal (Mar 9) | -27.0 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.394/gal | $3.154/gal (Oct 7) | $3.582/gal (Mar 31) | -25.7 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.118/gal | $2.911/gal (Oct 2) | $3.315/gal (Feb 19) | -32.3 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.317/gal | $3.248/gal (Dec 26) | $3.359/gal (Jan 30) | -26.4 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.342/gal | $3.069/gal (Oct 4) | $3.737/gal (Mar 28) | -27.6 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 Maine's residential price minus the New England residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 82,386 |
| Share of occupied homes | 13.8% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 597,159 |
| National rank by propane share | #4 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Maine residential propane stood at $3.536/gal through October 12, putting it 11.8% above the 5-year median. The price has climbed 13.3% since the same week last year, a year-over-year move that outpaces the seasonal norm as heating season opens.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Maine residential propane was $3.523/gal on Mar 30, up 3.2 cents on the week and 2.3% above the 4-year median. Year-over-year, prices ran 1.6% lower.
About Maine propane prices
Maine heats with delivered fuel more than any other state, and heating oil still takes the largest share of it. Propane has been picking up share as homeowners convert. There is no natural gas service across most of the state and no propane pipeline into it, so every gallon arrives by ship, rail or truck. Winter storms that close roads and ports are a supply risk here in a way they are not inland.
The price above comes from EIA's State Heating Oil and Propane Program, which surveys a sample of retail dealers in Maine 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. EIA publishes no wholesale price for Maine, so the chart carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the East Coast price page. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 13.8% of occupied Maine homes, the 4th highest share in the country. A hard winter is a bigger household event here than the national average suggests.
For context beyond one state, Maine sits in the New England district: regional prices and New England 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 Maine?
Maine's residential propane price is $3.679/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 Maine?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Maine's residential price set its season high in March in three of the last five heating seasons, January in one and February in one. 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 40.5 cents a season, and the table above lists each season's high and low week. The regional wrinkle is that New England has no propane production and no trunk pipeline of its own, so a cold snap here shows up first as a delivery problem: barrels arriving by ship, rail and truck against a small storage base. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.
How does the Maine propane price compare with the New England average?
Maine's residential propane price averaged below the New England average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 25.7 cents and 32.3 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Maine was at $3.679/gal against $3.917/gal for the New England average. The seasons table above gives the gap season by season, and New England propane prices carries the district's own chart.
Why is there no wholesale propane price for Maine?
EIA publishes no state-level wholesale (rack) price for Maine, so the chart above carries the residential line alone. The wholesale series runs at the regional level instead, on the East 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.