State prices
Above normalVirginia propane prices
Current residential price: $3.795/gal, wholesale $1.446/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
- Virginia
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $3.795/gal, 12.9% above the 5-yr median.
Virginia residential propane reached $3.795/gal, up 3.5 cents on the week and running 12.9% above the 5-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $3.795/gal | $3.760/gal | +0.9% |
| Year over year | $3.795/gal | $3.424/gal | +10.8% |
| vs 5-yr median | $3.795/gal | $3.361/gal | +12.9% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Lower Atlantic average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $3.723/gal | $3.661/gal (Oct 12) | $3.795/gal (Oct 26) | $1.334/gal | +9.5 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $3.461/gal | $3.407/gal (Nov 17) | $3.565/gal (Mar 30) | $0.972/gal | +3.8 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $3.521/gal | $3.353/gal (Oct 7) | $3.656/gal (Feb 17) | $1.228/gal | +5.2 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $3.377/gal | $3.250/gal (Nov 6) | $3.509/gal (Feb 19) | $0.984/gal | -0.1 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $3.345/gal | $3.294/gal (Dec 26) | $3.384/gal (Jan 30) | $1.118/gal | -3.4 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $3.488/gal | $3.241/gal (Oct 4) | $3.757/gal (Mar 7) | 10 of 26 weeks | +2.9 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 Virginia's residential price minus the Lower Atlantic residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 144,443 |
| Share of occupied homes | 4.3% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 3,365,732 |
| National rank by propane share | #33 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Virginia residential propane stands at $3.760/gal, up 2.7% on the week. The price sits 12% above the 5-yr median.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Virginia residential propane priced at $3.565/gal in the Mar 30 survey, up 0.3% on the week and 0.5% above the 4-year median. Wholesale at Mont Belvieu stood at $1.180/gal.
About Virginia propane prices
Virginia's propane demand runs down the western half of the state, through the Shenandoah Valley, the Blue Ridge counties and Southside, where the gas mains give out. Poultry houses in the valley add a load that starts before home heating does. Supply comes north off the Gulf Coast pipeline system that serves the Carolinas and east from Appalachian gas processing, plus terminals on the James and the Chesapeake.
EIA builds this number by calling retail dealers in Virginia 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 also surveys a wholesale price for Virginia, 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 4.3% of occupied Virginia homes, below the national middle.
The regional numbers around this price are Lower Atlantic propane prices and Lower Atlantic propane stocks, the inventory that has to cover the winter. 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 Virginia?
Virginia's residential propane price is $3.795/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.446/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 Virginia?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Virginia'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 two of the last five heating seasons, November in two and December in one. From low to high the price moved an average of 26.5 cents a season, and the table above lists each season's high and low week. The regional wrinkle is that Lower Atlantic winters are milder, so the seasonal rise is usually shallower here, though poultry brooders and tobacco curing pull volume in the fall ahead of any real cold. Why propane prices rise in winter has the mechanics.
How does the Virginia propane price compare with the Lower Atlantic average?
Over the last five heating seasons, Virginia's residential propane price averaged above the Lower Atlantic average in three and below it in two. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Virginia was at $3.795/gal against $3.699/gal for the Lower Atlantic average. The seasons table above gives the gap season by season, and Lower 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 Virginia 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.