State prices
Above normalPennsylvania propane prices
Current residential price: $3.209/gal, wholesale $1.416/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
- Pennsylvania
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.209/gal, 13.9% above the 5-yr median.
Pennsylvania residential propane stands at $3.209/gal, 13.9% above the 5-year median and year-ago levels. Wholesale propane reads $1.416/gal. The EIA survey runs October through March.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.209/gal | $3.175/gal | +1.1% |
| Year over year | $3.209/gal | $2.817/gal | +13.9% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.209/gal | $2.817/gal | +13.9% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Central Atlantic average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.156/gal | $3.110/gal (Oct 12) | $3.209/gal (Oct 26) | $1.295/gal | -42.2 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $2.932/gal | $2.815/gal (Oct 13) | $3.096/gal (Mar 9) | $1.108/gal | -42.2 cents |
| 2024-25 | 25 | $2.952/gal | $2.758/gal (Oct 21) | $3.181/gal (Jan 27) | $1.176/gal | -38.6 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $2.851/gal | $2.702/gal (Oct 16) | $2.988/gal (Feb 19) | $1.033/gal | -35.4 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $2.949/gal | $2.902/gal (Dec 26) | $2.981/gal (Jan 30) | $1.111/gal | -31.3 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $2.999/gal | $2.893/gal (Oct 4) | $3.292/gal (Mar 14) | $1.562/gal | -32.8 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 Pennsylvania's residential price minus the Central Atlantic residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 268,994 |
| Share of occupied homes | 5.1% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 5,274,853 |
| National rank by propane share | #28 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Pennsylvania residential propane read $3.083/gal in the Mar 30 survey, 3% above the 4-yr median. The price is up 0.9% week over week and 1.6% year over year.
About Pennsylvania propane prices
Pennsylvania is a propane exporter. Marcellus and Utica gas processing produce far more natural gas liquids than the state burns, and the Mariner East pipelines carry propane, ethane and butane across Pennsylvania to Marcus Hook on the Delaware River, where cargoes load for overseas buyers. In-state demand is rural: the northern tier, the ridge and valley counties and the farm country, all outside the systems that serve Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Local production plus export pull makes the Pennsylvania price behave differently from its neighbors' in a tight winter.
This is a surveyed average rather than a quote. EIA polls a sample of Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania, 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 5.1% of occupied Pennsylvania homes, around the middle of the state rankings.
The regional numbers around this price are Central Atlantic propane prices and Central Atlantic 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 Pennsylvania survey price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Pennsylvania?
Pennsylvania's residential propane price is $3.209/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.416/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 Pennsylvania?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Pennsylvania's residential price set its season high in January in two of the last five heating seasons, March in two and February in one. The season low came in October in four of the last five heating seasons and December in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 29.4 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 Pennsylvania propane price compare with the Central Atlantic average?
Pennsylvania's residential propane price averaged below the Central Atlantic average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 31.3 cents and 42.2 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Pennsylvania was at $3.209/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 Pennsylvania 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.