State prices
Above normalNew York propane prices
Current residential price: $3.794/gal, wholesale $1.469/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
- New York
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.794/gal, 13.8% above the 5-yr median.
Residential propane in New York hit $3.794/gal on October 26, up 1.8% on the week. The price ran 13.8% above the five-year median as the heating season opened. Wholesale propane in the state stood at $1.469/gal.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.794/gal | $3.727/gal | +1.8% |
| Year over year | $3.794/gal | $3.381/gal | +12.2% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.794/gal | $3.334/gal | +13.8% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Central Atlantic average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.717/gal | $3.664/gal (Oct 5) | $3.794/gal (Oct 26) | $1.353/gal | +13.9 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.528/gal | $3.358/gal (Oct 6) | $3.760/gal (Mar 23) | $1.157/gal | +17.4 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.442/gal | $3.192/gal (Oct 7) | $3.657/gal (Mar 3) | $1.233/gal | +9.8 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.314/gal | $3.222/gal (Oct 30) | $3.412/gal (Feb 19) | $1.092/gal | +10.9 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.389/gal | $3.337/gal (Oct 3) | $3.431/gal (Jan 30) | $1.199/gal | +12.7 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.423/gal | $3.162/gal (Oct 4) | $3.751/gal (Mar 14) | $1.618/gal | +9.5 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 York's residential price minus the Central Atlantic residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 380,145 |
| Share of occupied homes | 4.9% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 7,722,646 |
| National rank by propane share | #30 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
New York residential propane reached $3.727/gal for the week ending October 19, up 1.2% from the prior week, and sits 13.2% above the 5-year median. Wholesale propane traded at $1.412/gal.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
New York residential propane rose to $3.683/gal through October 12, a 1.9-cent gain from the prior week, and sits 11.1% above the 5-yr median. Year over year prices have risen 9.4% from $3.367/gal.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
New York residential propane fell 1.3 cents on the week to $3.747/gal in the EIA weekly survey dated Mar 30, 2026. The price is 7.4% above the 4-year median, up 3.7% year over year.
About New York propane prices
New York has more propane-heated homes than any other state in the Northeast, nearly all of them upstate. Demand runs across the Southern Tier, the North Country and the farm counties where the mains stop and winter is long. Supply comes from Marcellus gas processing to the south, from terminals on the Hudson and the harbor, and by rail. The city and its suburbs contribute almost nothing to the number: this is an upstate price.
EIA builds this number by calling retail dealers in New York each week of the October to March heating season and averaging what they report, published Wednesday afternoon. The survey stops for the summer and picks back up in October. Two lines run on the chart because EIA surveys New York 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 4.9% of occupied New York homes, around the middle of the state rankings.
For context beyond one state, New York sits in the Central Atlantic district: regional prices and Central Atlantic propane stocks. The propane usage calculator will estimate your fill cost at this price: gallons per burner-hour from an appliance's rating, gallons a year, and how long a tank of a given size lasts between deliveries.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in New York?
New York's residential propane price is $3.794/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.469/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 New York?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, New York'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 each of the last five heating seasons. From low to high the price moved an average of 34.8 cents a season, and the table above lists each season's high and low week. The regional wrinkle is that the Central Atlantic carries the heaviest East Coast demand, concentrated upstate in New York and across rural Pennsylvania, and draws on Marcellus gas processing as well as Gulf Coast pipeline supply. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.
How does the New York propane price compare with the Central Atlantic average?
New York's residential propane price averaged above the Central Atlantic average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 9.5 cents and 17.4 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey New York was at $3.794/gal against $3.639/gal for the Central Atlantic average. The seasons table above gives the gap season by season, and Central Atlantic 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 New York 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.