State prices
Near normalOhio propane prices
Current residential price: $2.700/gal, wholesale $1.367/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
- Ohio
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.700/gal, 8.3% above the 5-yr median.
Ohio residential propane prices rose to $2.700/gal, up 1.9% on the week and 8.7% year over year. Prices sit 8.3% above the 5-year median as the heating season gets underway.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.700/gal | $2.649/gal | +1.9% |
| Year over year | $2.700/gal | $2.483/gal | +8.7% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.700/gal | $2.492/gal | +8.3% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Midwest average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $2.625/gal | $2.545/gal (Oct 5) | $2.700/gal (Oct 26) | $1.216/gal | +49.5 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $2.579/gal | $2.411/gal (Nov 3) | $2.750/gal (Feb 16) | $1.038/gal | +51.1 cents |
| 2024-25 | 25 | $2.671/gal | $2.450/gal (Oct 21) | $2.869/gal (Mar 3) | $1.115/gal | +58.4 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $2.542/gal | $2.327/gal (Oct 2) | $2.724/gal (Feb 12) | $1.014/gal | +52.5 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $2.701/gal | $2.636/gal (Oct 17) | $2.761/gal (Jan 23) | $1.101/gal | +42.8 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $2.762/gal | $2.635/gal (Oct 18) | $2.963/gal (Mar 7) | $1.544/gal | +35.4 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 Ohio's residential price minus the Midwest residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 274,581 |
| Share of occupied homes | 5.6% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 4,863,191 |
| National rank by propane share | #24 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Ohio residential propane stood at $2.695/gal in the Mar 30 survey. The price sat 0.8% below the 4-yr median. Year over year it was down 1.3%.
About Ohio propane prices
Ohio produces propane now. Utica shale processing and fractionation in the eastern counties strip natural gas liquids out of the gas stream, and the state has refinery output as well, which puts supply closer to Ohio's customers than to most of the Midwest's. Demand is rural home heating across the Appalachian counties and the farm belt, plus grain drying in a wet fall.
This is a surveyed average rather than a quote. EIA polls a sample of Ohio propane dealers weekly through the October to March heating season and publishes the state figure Wednesday afternoon; the series then goes quiet until October. EIA also surveys a wholesale price for Ohio, plotted as the lower line. The distance between the two is the delivered-service stack, and it widens when the rack falls faster than dealers reprice. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 5.6% of occupied Ohio homes, around the middle of the state rankings.
The regional numbers around this price are Midwest propane prices and Midwest propane stocks, the inventory that has to cover the winter. A price per gallon is not a delivery ticket. The propane usage calculator estimates gallons burned and what a fill costs at the current Ohio survey price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Ohio?
Ohio's residential propane price is $2.700/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.367/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 Ohio?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Ohio's residential price set its season high in February in two of the last five heating seasons, March in two and January in one. The season low came in October in four of the last five heating seasons and November in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 32.2 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 Ohio propane price compare with the Midwest average?
Ohio's residential propane price averaged above the Midwest average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 35.4 cents and 58.4 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Ohio was at $2.700/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 an Ohio 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.