State prices
Above normalMichigan propane prices
Current residential price: $2.458/gal, wholesale $1.283/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
- Michigan
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.458/gal, 13% above the 5-yr median.
Michigan residential propane rose 2.4 cents to $2.458/gal on October 26. The state sits 13% above the 5-year median. Wholesale read $1.283/gal the same day.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.458/gal | $2.434/gal | +1.0% |
| Year over year | $2.458/gal | $2.157/gal | +14.0% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.458/gal | $2.176/gal | +13.0% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Midwest average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $2.405/gal | $2.335/gal (Oct 5) | $2.458/gal (Oct 26) | $1.171/gal | +27.4 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $2.262/gal | $2.157/gal (Oct 27) | $2.373/gal (Feb 9) | $0.942/gal | +19.4 cents |
| 2024-25 | 25 | $2.265/gal | $2.169/gal (Oct 7) | $2.373/gal (Feb 24) | $1.005/gal | +17.8 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $2.203/gal | $2.089/gal (Oct 2) | $2.313/gal (Feb 19) | $0.901/gal | +18.6 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $2.483/gal | $2.467/gal (Mar 27) | $2.506/gal (Oct 10) | $1.029/gal | +20.9 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $2.514/gal | $2.393/gal (Oct 4) | $2.777/gal (Mar 7) | $1.433/gal | +10.6 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 Michigan's residential price minus the Midwest residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 353,585 |
| Share of occupied homes | 8.7% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 4,076,369 |
| National rank by propane share | #13 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Michigan residential propane hit $2.434/gal for the week through October 19, up 1.8% on the week and 11.5% above the 5-yr median. Wholesale spot was $1.222/gal.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Michigan residential propane stood at $2.392/gal through October 12, up 2.4% on the week and running 9.8% above the 5-year median. The wholesale benchmark in the state read $1.136/gal over the same period.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Michigan residential propane read $2.370/gal in the Mar 30 survey, 1.4% below the 4-yr median. Wholesale was $1.025/gal. The residential price was up 0.3% over the prior four weeks and up 1.2% year over year.
About Michigan propane prices
Michigan's propane customers are concentrated in the northern Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula, where the gas mains thin out and winter runs long. Some of the state's supply is stripped out of Enbridge's Line 5 at plants in Rapid River and Kalkaska, which is why a pipeline argument in Michigan is also a propane argument; the rest arrives by pipeline from the south, from Sarnia in Ontario, and by rail and truck. Long supply lines plus heavy rural demand is why Michigan was among the hardest hit states in the shortage of the winter of 2013-14.
The price above comes from EIA's State Heating Oil and Propane Program, which surveys a sample of retail dealers in Michigan 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. The second line on the chart is the wholesale price Michigan 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 8.7% of occupied Michigan homes, well above the national middle. That is a large block of homes to keep supplied through a cold January.
Michigan reports into EIA's Midwest district, so the wider read is Midwest propane prices and the Midwest inventory behind them. 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 Michigan?
Michigan's residential propane price is $2.458/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.283/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 Michigan?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Michigan's residential price set its season high in February in three of the last five heating seasons, October in one and March in one. The season low came in October in four of the last five heating seasons and March in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 21.3 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 Michigan propane price compare with the Midwest average?
Michigan's residential propane price averaged above the Midwest average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 10.6 cents and 20.9 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Michigan was at $2.458/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 Michigan 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.