# US propane demand, latest week Weekly product supplied, EIA's demand proxy, thousand barrels per day (kb/d) _Data through Aug 28, 2026 · source last checked Sep 2, 2026 · page revised Sep 2, 2026_ > Now 1.125 million b/d, 59.3% above the 5-yr median. Propane demand hit 1.125 million barrels per day on the week through August 28, up 494 thousand barrels per day week over week and 59.3% above the 5-year median. Crop-drying demand in the Midwest typically peaks in late August and early September as grain requires drying after harvest. ## The numbers | Period | Current | Prior | Change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Week over week | 1,125 kb/d | 631 kb/d | +78.3% | | vs 4 weeks ago | 1,125 kb/d | 909 kb/d | +23.8% | | Year over year | 1,125 kb/d | 706 kb/d | +59.3% | | vs 5-yr median | 1,125 kb/d | 706 kb/d | +59.3% | ## About US propane demand, latest week This is EIA's weekly propane and propylene "product supplied," the agency's proxy for consumption, in thousand barrels per day, from the Weekly Petroleum Status Report. It is not a metered reading of what furnaces and industry actually burned; EIA calculates it as a balance: production plus imports, minus the change in stocks, minus exports. What is left over is inferred to have moved through the wholesale system to end users. Because it is a balancing figure, a single week's number can be noisy, but the trend is the closest weekly read on US propane consumption there is. A spike, from a hard cold snap or a wet corn harvest pulling grain dryers, draws down [US stocks](/stocks/us) and typically firms the [Mont Belvieu wholesale price](/spot/mont-belvieu) within days; the retail price a household pays follows with a longer lag, since dealers buy on contract and carry inventory rather than repricing daily against the hub. EIA publishes this figure every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Eastern in the Weekly Petroleum Status Report, for the week that ended the previous Friday, holiday weeks pushed to Thursday. It is the number this site's [US propane stocks](/stocks/us) page reads against: a stocks draw that outruns what this line alone would predict usually means exports absorbed the difference, and the two pages are meant to be read together rather than on their own. ## About this data - Source: EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report - Series: Propane and propylene supply (production, exports, imports, product supplied) - Geography: United States - Unit: kb/d - Calculation period: Weekly balance - Last observation: Aug 28, 2026 - Update frequency: Weekly --- Cite: US propane demand, latest week: 1.125 million b/d as of Aug 28, 2026 (EIA weekly). The Fill Line. https://fill-line.com/supply/demand Canonical URL: https://fill-line.com/supply/demand