State prices
Above normalNew Hampshire propane prices
Current residential price: $3.904/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
- New Hampshire
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.904/gal, 12.5% above the 5-yr median.
New Hampshire residential propane stands at $3.904/gal through October 26, 12.5% above the 5-yr median. The price moved up from $3.843/gal the prior week and is up 13.4% year over year.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.904/gal | $3.843/gal | +1.6% |
| Year over year | $3.904/gal | $3.444/gal | +13.4% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.904/gal | $3.471/gal | +12.5% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | vs New England average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.838/gal | $3.792/gal (Oct 5) | $3.904/gal (Oct 26) | +1.2 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.580/gal | $3.429/gal (Nov 3) | $3.780/gal (Mar 30) | +1.6 cents |
| 2024-25 | 25 | $3.638/gal | $3.450/gal (Oct 7) | $3.878/gal (Feb 24) | -0.7 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.466/gal | $3.278/gal (Nov 6) | $3.660/gal (Feb 5) | +2.5 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.763/gal | $3.716/gal (Mar 27) | $3.811/gal (Oct 3) | +18.2 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.724/gal | $3.380/gal (Oct 4) | $4.141/gal (Mar 14) | +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 New Hampshire's residential price minus the New England residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 106,994 |
| Share of occupied homes | 19.2% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 555,822 |
| National rank by propane share | #1 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
New Hampshire residential propane stands at $3.843/gal as of October 19. The price rose 3.0 cents on the week and 11.7% year over year. Current levels sit 10.9% above the 5-year median.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
New Hampshire residential propane prices reached $3.813/gal, up 0.6% on the week. The price sits 9.8% above the five-year median. Year over year, prices are up 11.1%.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
New Hampshire residential propane hit $3.780/gal on Mar 30, up 2.6% over four weeks and 0.6% above the 4-year median. Year over year the price is down 0.6%.
About New Hampshire propane prices
New Hampshire leans on propane harder than any other state. Natural gas service reaches only a narrow band of the southern tier, most of the housing stock outside it burns delivered fuel, and propane has been taking share from heating oil for years. Every gallon arrives by truck or rail from terminals outside the state, so the delivered price carries a freight component a Gulf Coast reader would not recognize.
The figure above is EIA's weekly survey average for New Hampshire, 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. EIA publishes no wholesale price for New Hampshire, 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 19.2% of occupied New Hampshire homes, the highest share in the country. No state's households are more exposed to what happens to this price.
New Hampshire reports into EIA's New England district, so the wider read is New England propane prices and the New England 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 New Hampshire price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in New Hampshire?
New Hampshire's residential propane price is $3.904/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 New Hampshire?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, New Hampshire's residential price set its season high in February in two of the last five heating seasons, March in two and October in one. The season low came in October in two of the last five heating seasons, November in two and March in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 40.3 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 New Hampshire propane price compare with the New England average?
Over the last five heating seasons, New Hampshire's residential propane price averaged above the New England average in four and below it in one. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey New Hampshire was at $3.904/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 New Hampshire?
EIA publishes no state-level wholesale (rack) price for New Hampshire, 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.