State prices
Above normalWisconsin propane prices
Current residential price: $2.007/gal, wholesale $1.295/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
- Wisconsin
- Unit
- $/gal
- Calculation
- Weekly survey, Oct-Mar heating season
- Last observation
- Oct 26, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly, Oct-Mar
Now $2.007/gal, 13.6% above the 5-yr median.
Wisconsin residential propane stood at $2.007/gal on the survey through October 26, up 7 cents on the week and 13.6% above the 5-year median. Wholesale at the same date was $1.295/gal.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $2.007/gal | $1.940/gal | +3.5% |
| Year over year | $2.007/gal | $1.733/gal | +15.8% |
| vs 5-yr median | $2.007/gal | $1.766/gal | +13.6% |
| Heating season | Weeks | Average | Low (week) | High (week) | Wholesale average | vs Midwest average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 (so far) | 4 | $1.913/gal | $1.817/gal (Oct 5) | $2.007/gal (Oct 26) | $1.195/gal | -21.7 cents |
| 2025-26 | 26 | $1.909/gal | $1.711/gal (Oct 6) | $2.069/gal (Mar 23) | $0.916/gal | -15.9 cents |
| 2024-25 | 26 | $1.935/gal | $1.723/gal (Oct 7) | $2.125/gal (Feb 17) | $1.054/gal | -15.6 cents |
| 2023-24 | 26 | $1.838/gal | $1.719/gal (Oct 2) | $1.924/gal (Jan 29) | $0.927/gal | -17.8 cents |
| 2022-23 | 26 | $2.130/gal | $2.070/gal (Oct 31) | $2.179/gal (Dec 19) | $1.016/gal | -14.4 cents |
| 2021-22 | 26 | $2.371/gal | $2.129/gal (Oct 4) | $2.647/gal (Mar 21) | $1.489/gal | -3.7 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 Wisconsin's residential price minus the Midwest residential average over the same weeks, per gallon.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Homes heating with propane | 292,722 |
| Share of occupied homes | 11.8% |
| Occupied homes (all fuels) | 2,479,480 |
| National rank by propane share | #8 of 51 |
Previous weeks
Week of Oct 19, 2026
Wisconsin residential propane rose 2.7% on the week to $1.940/gal through October 19 and stands 12.3% higher than a year ago. The price sits 10.2% above the 5-year median.
Week of Oct 12, 2026
Wisconsin residential propane hit $1.889/gal on October 12, up 4.0% on the week and 8.2% above the five-year median.
Week of Mar 30, 2026
Wisconsin residential propane was $2.066/gal in the EIA survey through Mar 30, 2026. The price sits 1.4% below the 4-year median heading into spring, but is up 1.8% from a year ago. Wholesale at the pump read $0.994/gal.
About Wisconsin propane prices
Wisconsin combines a long heating season with a heavy fall grain drying load, and it was one of the states that ran short in the winter of 2013-14. Propane heats a high share of homes across the northern and western counties where the mains thin out. Supply comes by pipeline and rail from the Gulf Coast and the Midwest system, with in-state storage and terminals carrying the peak. When the upper Midwest tightens, Wisconsin dealers feel it at the same time Minnesota's do.
The figure above is EIA's weekly survey average for Wisconsin, 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 also surveys a wholesale price for Wisconsin, 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 11.8% of occupied Wisconsin homes, well above the national middle. That is a large block of homes to keep supplied through a cold January.
The regional numbers around this price are Midwest propane prices and Midwest propane stocks, the inventory that has to cover the winter. 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 Wisconsin price.
Common questions
What is the current propane price in Wisconsin?
Wisconsin's residential propane price is $2.007/gal as of Oct 26, 2026, the latest reading in EIA's weekly heating-season survey, with the wholesale (rack) price at $1.295/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 Wisconsin?
In EIA's weekly survey, which runs October through March, Wisconsin's residential price set its season high in March in two of the last five heating seasons, December in one, January in one and February 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 31.8 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 Wisconsin propane price compare with the Midwest average?
Wisconsin's residential propane price averaged below the Midwest average in each of the last five heating seasons, by between 3.7 cents and 17.8 cents a gallon. In the Oct 26, 2026 survey Wisconsin was at $2.007/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 Wisconsin 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.