Heating oil price data sources
SHOPP (State Heating Oil and Propane Program) weekly residential retail price survey, Form EIA-877. Series EPD2F_PRS. Prices are collected every Monday (as of 7:00 a.m. local time) October to March and published about 1:00 p.m. ET on Wednesdays. Off season EIA has at times collected monthly (April to September 2024; April and May 2025); in 2026 nothing was published between the weeks of 30 March and 5 October. Reported prices exclude taxes and exclude cash and high-volume discounts. Estimates are volume-weighted.
National + state weekly residential delivered, excluding taxes and discounts. Collected Mondays, published about 1:00 p.m. ET Wednesdays during the heating season. This page carries EIA's own Release Date and Next Release Date.
EIA publishes no annual series for residential heating oil (the former _a.htm annual page returns 404). The 25-year history takes the mean of the months EIA published in each calendar year: January to March and October to December in most years. Monthly values are also on api.eia.gov v2 petroleum/pri/wfr.
Released 6 October 2026 with the October 2026 Short-Term Energy Outlook. Figures from Table WF01 (wf01.xlsx on that page), US average for households heating mainly with heating oil, winter November to March, prices excluding taxes: about 400 gal (401.7), $5.27/gal, $2,115 spend (+21% on winter 2025-26), $2,332 in the 10%-colder case and $1,974 in the 10%-warmer case. Heating oil is the main space heating fuel for about 3% of US households; 3.39 million of the 4.13 million such homes (82%) are in the Northeast. WF01 also carries the five prior winters used on /cold-winter-scenario.
Daily and monthly NY Harbor ULSD physical cash-market spot price. The wholesale anchor the site displays, and the basis of the ten-year seasonal index. The CME NY Harbor ULSD (HO) futures contract is physically delivered into this same New York Harbor market, so futures and spot converge into expiry through delivery and arbitrage; the futures are NOT cash-settled against this EIA series.
Contract specification changed from up-to-2,000-ppm heating oil to 15-ppm ULSD with the May 2013 delivery month, taking the NY Harbor ULSD name; CME re-specified the existing contract rather than de-listing it. Settlement method is physical delivery at New York Harbor, 42,000 gallons. Referenced for futures-curve context (contango/backwardation); the displayed wholesale price is the EIA cash-market spot, see EIA_ULSD.
Weekly NY home heating oil price survey supplements EIA SHOPP.
Weekly survey of MA dealers, published by DOER.
CT Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection weekly survey.
Weekly fuel price survey across Maine planning regions.
Federal penalty $1,000 or $10/gal (greater of) for dyed-fuel road use.
CPI-U all items, US city average, not seasonally adjusted. Annual averages deflate the 25-year history to August 2026 (334.980).
Cold-Climate Air Source Heat Pump specification and product list.
Daily series peak in 2008: $145.31/bbl on 3 July 2008. Weekly series supplies the crude line of the retail cost stack.
How freshness works
- EIA SHOPP: collected Mondays Oct to Mar, published about 1:00 p.m. ET Wednesdays. April to September the survey drops to the second Monday of the month, and no off-season residential reading was published for 2026.
- EIA NY Harbor ULSD spot: daily, year-round.
- State agencies: weekly during heating season, varies on pause.
- This site refreshes data on each build. Static export, cached at edge.