State prices
Above normalRhode Island propane prices
Current residential price: $4.116/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
- Rhode Island
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $4.116/gal, 15.1% above the 5-yr median.
Residential propane in Rhode Island stands at $4.116/gal as of Oct. 26, down 1.9% on the week and 15.1% above the 5-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $4.116/gal | $4.197/gal | -1.9% |
| Year over year | $4.116/gal | $3.575/gal | +15.1% |
| vs 5-yr median | $4.116/gal | $3.575/gal | +15.1% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | vs New England average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $4.056/gal | $3.816/gal (Oct 5) | $4.197/gal (Oct 19) | +23.0 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.629/gal | $3.507/gal (Nov 10) | $3.792/gal (Mar 23) | +6.5 cents |
| 2024-25 | 25 | $3.666/gal | $3.505/gal (Nov 11) | $3.846/gal (Feb 10) | +2.1 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.508/gal | $3.332/gal (Oct 9) | $3.712/gal (Mar 4) | +6.7 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.733/gal | $3.579/gal (Mar 27) | $3.883/gal (Oct 24) | +15.2 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.756/gal | $3.472/gal (Oct 4) | $4.095/gal (Mar 14) | +13.8 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 Rhode Island's residential price minus the New England residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 22,210 |
| Share of occupied homes | 5.0% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 441,570 |
| National rank by propane share | #29 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Rhode Island residential propane reached $4.093/gal in the week through October 12, up 7.3% on the week and 12.1% year over year. The price sits 15.2% above the five-year median.
Week of Oct 5, 2026
Rhode Island residential propane stands at $3.816/gal as of October 5, up 4.7% from a year ago. The price sits 4.7% above the 5-year median.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Rhode Island residential propane stood at $3.757/gal in the March 30, 2026 EIA weekly survey, 2.1% above the 4-year median. Prices rose 2.3% over the four weeks prior and fell 0.9% on the week, with year-over-year change essentially flat.
About Rhode Island propane prices
Rhode Island has the smallest propane market of any state EIA surveys. Natural gas serves most of the housing stock, and propane fills in around it: the rural western towns, cooking and water heating in homes that are otherwise on gas, and cylinder demand. Supply arrives through Providence and the terminals around Narragansett Bay, or over the road from Massachusetts and Connecticut.
EIA builds this number by calling retail dealers in Rhode Island 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. EIA publishes no wholesale price for Rhode Island, 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 5.0% of occupied Rhode Island homes, around the middle of the state rankings.
For context beyond one state, Rhode Island sits in the New England district: regional prices and New England 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 Rhode Island?
Rhode Island's residential propane price is $4.116/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 Rhode Island?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Rhode Island's residential price set its season high in March in three of the last five heating seasons, October in one and February 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 38.7 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 Rhode Island propane price compare with the New England average?
Rhode Island's residential propane price averaged above the New England average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 2.1 cents and 15.2 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Rhode Island was at $4.116/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 Rhode Island?
EIA publishes no state-level wholesale (rack) price for Rhode Island, 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.