State prices
Above normalVermont propane prices
Current residential price: $3.930/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
- Vermont
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.930/gal, 11.4% above the 5-yr median.
Vermont residential propane stands at $3.930/gal as of October 26, 11.4% above the 5-yr median as the heating-season survey opens. Prices are up 9.7% year over year.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.930/gal | $3.879/gal | +1.3% |
| Year over year | $3.930/gal | $3.583/gal | +9.7% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.930/gal | $3.529/gal | +11.4% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | vs New England average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.789/gal | $3.652/gal (Oct 5) | $3.930/gal (Oct 26) | -3.6 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.688/gal | $3.492/gal (Nov 3) | $3.815/gal (Mar 9) | +12.4 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.682/gal | $3.403/gal (Oct 7) | $3.854/gal (Mar 3) | +3.1 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.448/gal | $3.267/gal (Oct 2) | $3.600/gal (Mar 4) | +0.7 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.461/gal | $3.415/gal (Feb 20) | $3.544/gal (Nov 7) | -12.0 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.618/gal | $3.441/gal (Oct 4) | $4.010/gal (Mar 14) | level |
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 Vermont's residential price minus the New England residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 52,031 |
| Share of occupied homes | 19.0% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 273,416 |
| National rank by propane share | #2 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Vermont residential propane hit $3.733/gal in the Mar 30 survey, running 0.9% above the 4-year median. Year-over-year prices fell 2.2%, and the four-week decline was 0.9%.
About Vermont propane prices
Vermont has almost no natural gas service. One utility serves the northwestern corner of the state and everywhere else heats with delivered fuel, which is why Vermont carries one of the highest propane heating shares in the country. There is no pipeline and no production: propane arrives by truck and rail from terminals in New York, Quebec and southern New England. Freight and winter road conditions are a live part of the delivered price.
The figure above is EIA's weekly survey average for Vermont, 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. EIA publishes no wholesale price for Vermont, 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 19.0% of occupied Vermont homes, the 2nd highest share in the country. A hard winter is a bigger household event here than the national average suggests.
For context beyond one state, Vermont sits in the New England district: regional prices and New England propane stocks. 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 Vermont price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Vermont?
Vermont's residential propane price is $3.930/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 Vermont?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Vermont's residential price set its season high in March in four of the last five heating seasons and November in one. The season low came in October in three of the last five heating seasons, November in one and February in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 36.1 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 Vermont propane price compare with the New England average?
Over the last five heating seasons, Vermont's residential propane price averaged above the New England average in three, below it in one and level with it in one. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Vermont was at $3.930/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 Vermont?
EIA publishes no state-level wholesale (rack) price for Vermont, 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.