About the data

Every price on this site comes from the Heating Oil and Propane Update published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.

What is measured

EIA asks a sample of heating oil and propane retailers for their residential price, the price a household pays for a normal delivery. It publishes averages for the U.S., for regions (PADD 1 East Coast and its New England, Central Atlantic and Lower Atlantic parts, PADD 2 Midwest, and for propane PADD 3 Gulf Coast and PADD 4 Rocky Mountain) and for the states it covers. Prices are in dollars per gallon and exclude taxes. They are averages, not the price of any single dealer; we do not list local dealer prices.

When it is published

During the heating season, October through March, EIA surveys on Mondays and publishes on Wednesdays (later in a holiday week). From April to September it surveys once a month. Each page here shows the survey date of its number and, when EIA has stated it, the release date. The “next release” date is the one EIA prints with its latest table.

Coverage

EIA covers fewer states for heating oil than for propane, because heating oil is used mostly in the Northeast and parts of the Midwest. Areas EIA no longer reports (for example the District of Columbia for heating oil) are left out. Some state series start later than 1990; propane prices for the Gulf Coast, Rocky Mountain and several other states start in October 2014.

How pages are kept

• Latest pages (such as Massachusetts heating oil or Texas propane) keep the same address and are updated after each EIA release.
• Survey-date pages exist for every survey since Oct 1, 2024. Once published, their figures are not changed. EIA sometimes revises the previous week; the revision is then noted beside the original value, and latest and yearly pages use the revised number.
• Yearly pages cover the U.S. average from 1990 and regions and states from 2010.
• Season pages compare U.S. averages from October to March with the season before.

Calculations

Week change compares a price with the survey before it. Year change compares it with the survey nearest to 52 weeks earlier; in summer there may be none. Averages are simple means of the weekly values. Calculators multiply these averages by the amounts you enter; they do not add taxes or fees.

Reuse

EIA data are in the public domain and may be reused with attribution. If you quote figures from this site, please credit “Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration”. The original tables are on heating oil and propane at eia.gov. This site is independent and is not affiliated with EIA.

The latest survey here is Oct 19, 2026 for heating oil and Oct 19, 2026 for propane, released Oct 21, 2026.