State prices
Near normalTennessee propane prices
Current residential price: $3.277/gal, wholesale $1.466/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
- Tennessee
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.277/gal, 6.2% above the 5-yr median.
Tennessee residential propane stands at $3.277/gal, up 6 cents on the week and 7.5% from a year ago. The price sits 6.2% above the 5-year median. Wholesale reads $1.466/gal.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.277/gal | $3.219/gal | +1.8% |
| Year over year | $3.277/gal | $3.048/gal | +7.5% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.277/gal | $3.086/gal | +6.2% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Midwest average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.228/gal | $3.193/gal (Oct 5) | $3.277/gal (Oct 26) | $1.361/gal | +$1.10 |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.145/gal | $2.978/gal (Oct 6) | $3.249/gal (Mar 23) | $1.020/gal | +$1.08 |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.210/gal | $2.997/gal (Oct 7) | $3.337/gal (Feb 24) | $1.178/gal | +$1.12 |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.159/gal | $2.978/gal (Oct 2) | $3.321/gal (Feb 19) | $1.076/gal | +$1.14 |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.263/gal | $3.219/gal (Oct 17) | $3.394/gal (Oct 3) | $1.108/gal | +98.9 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.238/gal | $3.063/gal (Oct 4) | $3.385/gal (Mar 14) | 8 of 26 weeks | +83.1 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 Tennessee's residential price minus the Midwest residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 101,220 |
| Share of occupied homes | 3.6% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 2,824,277 |
| National rank by propane share | #37 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Tennessee residential propane stands at $3.219/gal, up 6.1% year-over-year and 5.1% above the 5-yr median. Wholesale sits at $1.418/gal. Data through October 19.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Tennessee residential propane read $3.224/gal for the week ending October 12, up 3.1 cents from the prior week and 6% above the five-year median. The wholesale benchmark read $1.330/gal.
Week of Oct 5, 2026
Tennessee residential propane stands at $3.193/gal, 6.5% above the 5-year median and up 7.2% from a year ago. Wholesale runs $1.230/gal.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Tennessee residential propane held at $3.248/gal in the Mar 30, 2026 survey, running at the 4-year median. The price is down 0.8% from a year ago and up 0.5% from four weeks prior. Wholesale read $1.179/gal.
About Tennessee propane prices
EIA groups Tennessee with the Midwest for propane reporting even though its weather and much of its supply lean south. Demand sits in the rural counties across the state, in the mountains east of Knoxville and the farm country west of Nashville. Supply comes off Gulf Coast pipelines and river terminals. Milder winters mean the seasonal draw here is shallower than in the states EIA files it alongside.
The figure above is EIA's weekly survey average for Tennessee, 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. The second line on the chart is the wholesale price Tennessee dealers pay at the rack. What separates the two lines is the cost of getting a gallon into a tank behind a house, which is delivery, tank service and dealer margin together, not margin alone. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey, on five-year estimates, puts propane as the main heating fuel in 3.6% of occupied Tennessee homes, below the national middle.
Tennessee reports into EIA's Midwest district, so the wider read is Midwest propane prices and the Midwest 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 Tennessee price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Tennessee?
Tennessee's residential propane price is $3.277/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.466/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 Tennessee?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Tennessee'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 each of the last five heating seasons. From low to high the price moved an average of 29.0 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 Tennessee propane price compare with the Midwest average?
Tennessee's residential propane price averaged above the Midwest average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 83.1 cents and $1.14 a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Tennessee was at $3.277/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 a Tennessee 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.