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New York propane, region by region

Start with who is actually licensed to sell it. Below are the 28 New York businesses on the state petroleum-distributor register that hold a liquid-propane licence, from Buffalo family operators and Long Island bottle-gas houses to the national chains. Then the parts that move your bill: how to vet a dealer in a state with no single propane licence, when to pre-buy, HEAP through OTDA, and why NY sits high in the Northeast at $3.75 a gallon.

Latest EIA residential propane price

Source: EIA New York residential propane price survey. Current data is the final release of the 2025/26 heating season (week ending 30 March 2026). EIA pauses weekly publication April-September; next release expected October 2026. Refreshed 8 September 2026.

New York at a glance
Licensed distributors28
2026 residential average$3.75/gal
vs US average+40%
500-gal fill (400 usable)$1499
From the state licensing register

28 propane-licensed distributors in New York

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Sourced from the New York Department of Taxation and Finance Publication 532, the state's register of active petroleum-business-tax distributors, captured 6 September 2026. New York issues no single statewide propane dealer licence, so this register is the closest public record of who is authorized to distribute liquid propane. It lists local retail dealers alongside regional and national distributors; being listed is a licensing fact, not an endorsement. View the source PDF.

#DistributorLocationPropane licence
1All Island Propane Corp.LicensedShirleyRegistered propane distributor
2Amerigas Propane LPLicensedValley ForgeRegistered propane distributor
3Amsterdam Truck Center, Inc.LicensedAmsterdamLiquid propane (Cat. P)
4Atlantic Bottle Gas Co., Inc.LicensedHicksvilleLiquid propane (Cat. P)
5Big Fella Enterprises, Inc.LicensedBrockportLiquid propane (Cat. P)
6Bmb Fuel Oil, Inc.LicensedBrooklynLiquid propane (Cat. P)
7Century Star Fuel CorporationLicensedNew RochelleLiquid propane (Cat. P)
8Colonial Oil Industries, Inc.LicensedSavannahLiquid propane (Cat. P)
9Country Propane, Inc.LicensedCentral SquareLiquid propane (Cat. P)
10H. L. Propane Co., Inc.LicensedWest LebanonRegistered propane distributor
11Irish Propane Corp.LicensedBuffaloRegistered propane distributor
12J.a. De Vos & Sons, Inc.LicensedN FerrisburghLiquid propane (Cat. P)
13J.k. Petroleum Inc.LicensedStaten IslandLiquid propane (Cat. P)
14Kimlin Propane Co., Inc.LicensedGardinerRegistered propane distributor
15Lewisy Fuel Oil, Inc.LicensedEast NorthportLiquid propane (Cat. P)
16Logan Propane, LLCLicensedFort PlainRegistered propane distributor
17LP. Fuel Oil Inc.LicensedGlendaleLiquid propane (Cat. P)
18Mj Leroux Oil, Corp.LicensedFort CovingtonLiquid propane (Cat. P)
19Mountain Propane, Inc.LicensedTannersvilleRegistered propane distributor
20New England Oil Co Inc.LicensedGreenwichLiquid propane (Cat. P)
21Optimum Oil & Propane, Inc.LicensedMahopacRegistered propane distributor
22Pioneer Propane CorporationLicensedDelevanLiquid propane (Cat. P)
23Ravenswood Services, LLCLicensedEast BrunswickLiquid propane (Cat. P)
24Scharman Propane Gas Service, Inc.LicensedBouckvilleRegistered propane distributor
25Scott Smith & Son, Inc.LicensedOwegoLiquid propane (Cat. P)
26Son Fuel Oil Company, Inc.LicensedSouth OrangeLiquid propane (Cat. P)
27Suburban Propane, LP.LicensedWhippanyRegistered propane distributor
28Swezey Fuel Co., Inc.LicensedPatchogueLiquid propane (Cat. P)

This is the full propane-relevant slice of New York's petroleum-distributor register, an August 2026 snapshot, not a ranked or best-of list. It is a smaller and rougher record than the licensed dealer registries other states publish, because New York regulates propane through fire code and local permitting rather than one central dealer licence. Some entries are single-county family operators; others are national or out-of-state distributors that hold a New York propane-tax licence. A location shown here is the address on the tax record, which is not always the yard that serves you. Browse the New York directory or enter your ZIP to see the closest dealers. Use it to confirm a company is licensed, then verify local permitting and get three written quotes. For a view based on customer reviews rather than the register, see the shortlist next.

Rated by customers, not the register

Well-reviewed New York propane operators by region

The register above tells you who is licensed, not who customers rate. This is the other half: a short, hand-checked set of operators with a real public review trail, spread across regions. Propane-dealer scores swing hard between Yelp, Google, Birdeye and BBB, so each card names the exact platform and sample, and only shows a star average where a large, stable sample exists. A good score is a starting point, not a guarantee, so read recent reviews and get three written quotes before you sign.

Hudson Valley

Bottini Fuel

Wappingers Falls, New York
4.4
1,300+ reviews on Birdeye

Family-run Hudson Valley propane, heating-oil and HVAC operator serving Dutchess, Ulster, Orange and Putnam counties for more than 70 years.

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Capital Region

Main-Care Energy

Albany, New York
4.5
Angi rating, 48 reviews on Yelp

Employee-owned since 1968 and serving the Capital Region since 1930, with 25,000-plus full-service propane, oil and gas customers across NY and Vermont.

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Mid-Hudson / Shawangunk

Kimlin Energy Services

Gardiner, New York
4.0
670+ reviews on Birdeye

Independent Ulster County propane and heating operator founded in 1982. Large review base with the mixed feedback typical of a high-volume delivery book, so read recent reviews before signing.

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Northern Catskills

Mountain Propane

Tannersville, New York
BBB A+
Family-owned since 2007, small review sample

Small Greene County independent with 24/7 emergency service across the northern Catskills. Too few public star reviews to average honestly, but it carries a BBB A+ rating.

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Western New York

Irish Propane

Buffalo, New York
70+ years
Fourth-generation family operator

Long-established Buffalo family operator serving Western NY residential, agricultural, commercial and motor-fuel customers. No single reliable star aggregate, so check current reviews.

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Ratings were read from Birdeye, Angi and the Better Business Bureau in August 2026 and move over time. We do not accept payment for placement. Long Island, the North Country and the Southern Tier are better served by the licensed-distributor register above, where rural operators with thin online review footprints still appear.

Buying propane well in New York: four moves that change the bill

A good dealer list is step one. In a high-cost state with no single propane licence to lean on, the gap between a careless account and a well-run one is usually several hundred dollars a winter. Here is where that money is won.

01

Vet without a single licence

New York has no one-page propane dealer lookup. Confirm the operator appears on the DTF petroleum-distributor register (the source of the table above), ask for proof of commercial general liability insurance, and check that local permits and tank inspection are current with your town or county code office, the Authority Having Jurisdiction under the state LP-Gas Code (19 NYCRR, NFPA 58).

02

Lock summer, not winter

Wholesale bottoms May through August; will-call peaks in January and February. A 1,000-gallon upstate household that pre-buys or caps in the off-season routinely saves $300 to $600 against winter spot. Most NY suppliers open enrollment between May 1 and August 31. Ask for a cap-price contract (you keep the savings if wholesale falls) rather than a strict pre-buy, and ask whether unused gallons roll forward.

03

Quote all three tiers

New York has a real three-tier market: national chains (AmeriGas, Suburban and its Griffith Energy brand), in-state and regional distributors, and local family operators in the Catskills, North Country and Western NY. In rural counties the spread between the cheapest local and the priciest national quote can be wide, so pull one written quote from each tier. If you own your tank, say so up front: it removes the switching penalty that leased-tank customers face.

04

Check HEAP eligibility

The Home Energy Assistance Program, run by OTDA through county Social Services offices, pays a heating benefit straight to your propane vendor for households at or below 60% of State Median Income ($6,680 a month for a household of four in 2025-2026). The Emergency benefit covers out-of-fuel and below-a-quarter-tank cases. HEAP is seasonal: the 2025-2026 season has closed and the next usually opens in mid-November. Apply at mybenefits.ny.gov or your county DSS.

Why New York propane runs above the national line

New York is the most geographically split state in our Northeast dataset. New York City, Long Island and Westchester are blanket-covered by natural gas mains, while the Adirondacks, Catskills, Finger Lakes and Western NY rural belt have almost no gas service and run on delivered fuel. Both extremes share one $3.75/gal statewide average, but the structural drivers are completely different.

$3.75
Residential average
per gallon, 2026
+40%
vs national
US avg $2.67
+2%
vs Northeast region
region $3.69
$3747
Annual fuel (1,000 gal)
typical upstate propane-heat home

Price figures: EIA State Heating Oil and Propane Program (SHOPP) residential survey, full-service delivery. Real NY quotes run roughly 10 to 15% either side of this average depending on supplier, contract type, owned vs rented tank, and service belt. The Adirondacks and Suffolk East End run above; Westchester and Long Island gas-edge customers run below.

Bifurcated demand: gas-served metro vs propane-dominant rural. NYC, Long Island and Westchester run on natural gas, so propane there is mostly appliance-only (pool heaters, generators, fireplaces, gas-main-edge homes) at 200 to 500 gallons a year. The Catskills, Adirondacks, North Country, Finger Lakes and Western NY rural belt have effectively no gas service and burn 1,000 to 1,500 gallons a year for primary heat. The statewide average splits the difference.
Distance from production, with Marcellus and Utica relief. About 90% of US propane comes from Gulf Coast gas processing and Mid-continent shale. New York gets a meaningful share via Pennsylvania Marcellus and Utica supply, which helps hold it below the coldest, priciest New England markets like Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. But supply still arrives through rail-to-truck handoffs at terminals such as Selkirk before bobtail delivery, and each handoff is a margin layer, with no in-state refining to shave it.
Rural delivery economics in the Adirondack and Catskill belts. Long routes plus low customer density push the per-gallon delivery component up sharply. A North Country supplier might cover 40 miles between two customers where a Westchester supplier covers four. That gap shows up in retail mark-up, especially in counties (Hamilton, Essex, Franklin, Sullivan, Delaware) where only two or three suppliers actively compete.
Heating-oil legacy in Western NY and the Hudson Valley. Much of rural New York ran on heating oil into the 2000s. The 2010s Marcellus and Utica boom dropped propane wholesale and triggered oil-to-propane conversions, especially in Western NY (Wyoming, Allegany, Cattaraugus, southern Erie) and the Hudson Valley. That dual-fuel base means many NY suppliers run combined oil-and-propane operations, which keeps overhead higher than a propane-only operator.
Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act pressure. New York's 2019 CLCPA targets deep greenhouse-gas cuts, and the 2023 All-Electric Buildings Act prohibits fossil-fuel heating in most new construction from January 1, 2026 (up to seven stories) and January 1, 2029 (all sizes). Existing propane homes are unaffected, but the long-term residential customer base is now policy-capped, which makes supplier economics more conservative on route expansion. Near-term retail prices still track supply and route economics, not policy, but it is the structural backdrop.

What a fill actually costs at $3.75/gal

Tanks fill to 80% of stated capacity (the 80% rule) to allow for thermal expansion, so a 500-gallon tank takes about 400 usable gallons. Here is the NY 2026 average worked through the common residential tank sizes.

Tank sizeUsable gallons (80%)Fill cost at $3.75/galvs national ($2.67/gal)
100 gal80 gal$300+$86
250 gal200 gal$749+$215
500 gal400 gal$1499+$429
1000 gal800 gal$2998+$858

A typical upstate NY propane-heat household burning 1,000 to 1,400 gallons a year spends roughly $3747 to $5246 on fuel alone, before tank rental or service contracts. That is about $1073 more than a comparable household in a national-average market. Compare the national refill cost guide or the 500-gallon tank cost breakdown.

Where New York lands in the Northeast

The whole Northeast runs well above the national mark on distance from production, rural-route premiums, and constrained regional storage. New York sits inside the high cluster but a little below the coldest New England states, helped by shorter rail distance to Pennsylvania Marcellus and Utica supply and a denser upstate propane customer base.

StatePrice/gal500-gal refill (400 usable)vs national ($2.67)
Pennsylvania$3.08$1233+15%
Maine$3.52$1409+32%
Massachusetts$3.65$1460+36%
Delaware$3.73$1492+40%
Vermont$3.73$1493+40%
New York (this page)$3.75$1499+40%
Rhode Island$3.76$1503+41%
New Hampshire$3.78$1512+41%
New Jersey$3.82$1528+43%
Connecticut$4.12$1646+54%
Northeast regional average$3.69$1476+38%
National average$2.67$10700%

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New York propane questions, answered

Where do the distributors in your table come from?
New York does not publish a single statewide propane dealer licence, so there is no clean per-company lookup the way some states run one. The closest public record is the New York Department of Taxation and Finance Publication 532 register of active petroleum-business-tax distributors, which flags the businesses licensed to move liquid propane (category P) or registered under a propane name. We captured that register on 6 September 2026 and list the 28 entries that genuinely deal in propane. It is a licensing record, not an endorsement or a ranked best-of list, and it mixes local retail dealers with regional and national distributors. The raw register also carries a handful of petroleum-tax licence holders that do not sell residential propane at all (airlines fuelling aircraft, a warehouse club, pipeline and shipping operators); we filter those out. Being on the register tells you a company is licensed, not that it serves your town, so confirm coverage and get three written quotes.
Who regulates propane dealers in New York?
There is no single centralized state propane dealer licence in New York. Oversight is shared. The New York Department of State, Division of Building Standards and Codes administers the LP-Gas Code through Title 19 NYCRR (the state Fire Code chapter on liquefied petroleum gases adopts NFPA 58 with New York amendments) and delegates enforcement to local Authorities Having Jurisdiction. The New York Department of Agriculture and Markets, Division of Weights and Measures tests propane delivery-truck meters every year between April and November, running 100-gallon test fills against a calibrated prover, and pulls a truck out of service if its meter shorts a customer. Local county and town code offices handle installer and dealer permitting plus tank siting and inspection. For tax and licensing, the Department of Taxation and Finance Publication 532 register lists who is authorized to distribute liquid propane, which is the source of the directory on this page. The trade body is the New York Propane Gas Association (NYPGA), founded 1948.
Am I eligible for HEAP propane assistance in New York?
New York's Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) is the state implementation of federal LIHEAP, administered by the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) through county Departments of Social Services. Income eligibility runs to 60% of State Median Income; for the 2025-2026 season the monthly limit for a household of four was $6,680, with the scale rising by household size. Households on SNAP, Temporary Assistance or SSI may auto-qualify. The Regular Benefit pays your propane supplier directly; the Emergency Benefit covers households out of fuel or below a quarter tank; the Heating Equipment Repair or Replacement (HERR) component covers furnace and boiler repair. HEAP is seasonal: the 2025-2026 Regular benefit ran from December 1, 2025 to April 10, 2026 and is now closed, and the 2026-2027 season typically opens in mid-November. Apply through your county DSS or via mybenefits.ny.gov; full program detail is at otda.ny.gov/programs/heap.
How does the All-Electric Buildings Act change propane in New York?
New York's All-Electric Buildings Act, part of the 2023 state budget and implementing the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), prohibits fossil-fuel heating and water-heating equipment in most new construction. From January 1, 2026 new buildings up to seven stories must be all-electric; from January 1, 2029 the prohibition extends to all new construction, with exemptions including restaurants, hospitals, laboratories, agricultural buildings, and emergency standby generators. For existing propane-heated New York homes nothing changes: replacement furnaces, boilers and water heaters are not affected, only new construction. The Act caps the long-term residential propane customer base because rural new builds in the Catskills, Adirondacks, Finger Lakes and Western NY that would historically have gone propane will now go heat-pump-electric. Realistically that pressure does not reach retail pricing for years; near-term NY propane prices remain a function of supply chain and route economics, not policy.
Why is propane more expensive in the Hamptons and on Long Island second homes?
Suffolk County's East End (the Hamptons and the North Fork) is one of the few downstate pockets where propane is a primary heating fuel, because much of the East End sits outside the natural-gas-main footprint. Combine that with high seasonal-occupancy second-home density, low full-time customer counts per route, and weekend-loaded delivery scheduling, and per-gallon margins routinely run 20 to 40 cents above the NY statewide $3.75/gal average. Coastal storm prep adds another factor: many East End homes keep whole-house propane standby generators for the regular Long Island Sound storm risk, which means tanks must be kept above 40% year-round and supplier emergency-fill premiums apply. Tank ownership and a summer pre-buy contract are the strongest cost levers in this zone because they let you shop the September or October refill rather than the automatic-delivery premium rate.
What drives the propane premium in the Adirondacks and Catskills?
The Adirondack Park (six million acres, larger than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined) and the Catskill Park have almost no natural gas service, so propane and heating oil are the only delivered-fuel options for primary heat across Essex, Hamilton, Franklin, Clinton, Sullivan, Delaware and much of Greene and Ulster counties. Annual residential propane usage in this belt runs 1,000 to 1,500 gallons because of the long heating season and older housing stock. The regional premium over NY's $3.75/gal statewide average comes from long delivery routes with low customer density, far fewer suppliers competing for any given town than on the I-87 corridor, and spring mud-season road-weight restrictions that can push deliveries into more expensive windows. The Finger Lakes and Western NY rural counties see similar economics on a smaller scale. Same playbook applies: own your tank, lock a summer pre-buy or cap-price contract, and top up to 80% in October.
Does Western NY pay more for propane because of lake-effect snow?
Indirectly, yes. Buffalo, Rochester and the Erie, Niagara and Chautauqua lake-effect belt see annual snowfall of 90 to 130-plus inches, well above the state average. That stretches the heating season and pushes annual propane consumption higher per household, which compounds the bill rather than the per-gallon rate. The Western NY rural belt outside the Buffalo and Rochester gas footprints (small-town Wyoming, Allegany, parts of Cattaraugus and southern Erie) is propane-dominant and historically heating-oil legacy: many homes converted from oil to propane in the 2010s as propane wholesale fell with Marcellus and Utica shale growth. Buffalo and Rochester themselves are natural-gas-dominant. Storm prep means standby generators are common, adding 50 to 150 gallons per year to the average household load.
When is the best time to fill a propane tank in New York?
Late spring through midsummer, roughly May through July. New York wholesale propane bottoms after heating season ends and before next-winter pre-buy contracts open. By September most NY suppliers have raised will-call and cap-price rates ahead of October deliveries. The worst months to fill are December through February, when cold-snap demand, lake-effect Western NY draws, and constrained Northeast storage push spot rates 30 to 80 cents above summer lows. A practical sequence for an upstate primary-heat home: top up to 80% in June or July at off-season rates, run from that into October, then take a single shoulder-season top-up in late September to start the heating season at 80 to 90% full. Suppliers also tend to waive minimum-delivery surcharges in the off-season, so a smaller summer top-up can be cheaper net than waiting for a full-tank January delivery.

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