Maine heating oil price history
By season: average and peak $/gal
Maine peak weeks
Across the five seasons in the table, Maine's highest weekly reading was $5.69/gal in the 2022-23 season. The latest EIA reading, $5.98/gal for the week of 2026-11-02, is above every weekly reading in those five seasons. Nationally, adjusted for inflation, the highest calendar-year average since 2001 was 2012 at $5.87/gal in August 2026 dollars (see the 25-year history).
vs the Northeast 8
Across the seasons in the table, Maine's season average sits within $0.24/gal of the eight-state mean at its widest. That is the gap against the mean of the states on this site, computed from the table above, not against PADD1A: PADD1A is New England only, so New York and Pennsylvania are not in it. 58% of Maine homes heat with oil, the highest in the US. Long winters and small towns drive large per-household consumption.