Rhode Island heating oil price history
By season: average and peak $/gal
Rhode Island peak weeks
Across the five seasons in the table, Rhode Island's highest weekly reading was $5.88/gal in the 2022-23 season. The latest EIA reading, $6.21/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, Rhode Island's season average sits within $0.14/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. 27% of RI homes heat with oil. Small state, dealer mix dominated by regional NE chains.