State prices
Above normalMissouri propane prices
Current residential price: $2.234/gal, wholesale $1.252/gal. EIA weekly survey (October-March).
Data through Oct 26, 2026 · source last checked Oct 31, 2026 · page revised Oct 29, 2026
Cite
- Residential
- Wholesale
About this data
- Source
- EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program survey
- Series
- Residential retail propane price
- Basis
- Residential, retail
- Geography
- Missouri
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.234/gal, 14.2% above the 5-yr median.
Missouri residential propane stands at $2.234/gal, up 2.4% on the week. The price sits 14.2% above the 5-yr median and 15.1% above last year's level as heating season opens.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.234/gal | $2.181/gal | +2.4% |
| Year over year | $2.234/gal | $1.941/gal | +15.1% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.234/gal | $1.956/gal | +14.2% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Midwest average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $2.151/gal | $2.061/gal (Oct 5) | $2.234/gal (Oct 26) | $1.142/gal | +2.1 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $2.097/gal | $1.941/gal (Oct 27) | $2.269/gal (Feb 9) | $0.793/gal | +2.9 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $2.121/gal | $1.936/gal (Oct 7) | $2.294/gal (Feb 24) | $0.922/gal | +3.0 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $2.039/gal | $1.909/gal (Oct 2) | $2.180/gal (Feb 26) | $0.830/gal | +2.3 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $2.336/gal | $2.308/gal (Mar 27) | $2.363/gal (Jan 30) | $0.916/gal | +6.2 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $2.434/gal | $2.167/gal (Oct 4) | $2.650/gal (Mar 7) | $1.380/gal | +2.6 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 Missouri's residential price minus the Midwest residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 211,044 |
| Share of occupied homes | 8.4% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 2,508,227 |
| National rank by propane share | #14 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Missouri residential propane rose 2.4% on the week to $2.181/gal, up 12.2% year-over-year and sitting 11.3% above the 5-yr median. Wholesale stands at $1.212/gal.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Missouri residential propane rose to $2.129/gal, up 7 cents on the week. Prices sit 9.3% above the 5-year median for this time of year.
Week of Oct 5, 2026
Missouri residential propane stands at $2.061/gal, up 6% from a year ago. Wholesale sits at $1.010/gal. The residential price runs 6% above the 5-yr median.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Missouri residential propane held at $2.209/gal in the Mar 30 survey. The price sits 2.4% below the 4-yr median. Year over year, it has fallen 0.5%.
About Missouri propane prices
Missouri's propane demand runs through the Ozarks and the farm counties north of the river, where gas mains stop and houses sit on tanks. Grain drying adds a fall load in the northern half of the state. Supply comes up from the Gulf Coast by pipeline, and Missouri sits close enough to the Conway hub in Kansas that the inland benchmark, rather than Mont Belvieu, is often the better read on what dealers here are paying.
The figure above is EIA's weekly survey average for Missouri, collected from retail dealers during the October to March heating season and published Wednesday afternoons. No survey runs in the warm months, so the last spring reading stands until the fall. The second line on the chart is the wholesale price Missouri 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 8.4% of occupied Missouri homes, well above the national middle. That is a large block of homes to keep supplied through a cold January.
Missouri reports into EIA's Midwest district, so the wider read is Midwest propane prices and the Midwest inventory behind them. Turning this price into a fill cost takes a tank size and a gauge reading; the propane usage calculator does that arithmetic and prefills the Missouri price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Missouri?
Missouri's residential propane price is $2.234/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.252/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 Missouri?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Missouri's residential price set its season high in February in three of the last five heating seasons, January 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 29.9 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 Missouri propane price compare with the Midwest average?
Missouri's residential propane price averaged above the Midwest average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 2.3 cents and 6.2 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Missouri was at $2.234/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 Missouri 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.