DOE diesel price this week

Name: Weekly U.S. On-Highway Diesel Prices (DOE index)
Creator: Weekly Diesel
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

The EIA weekly on-highway diesel index that fuel-surcharge schedules run on - U.S. average, all 10 regions, updated every release.

The Weekly Diesel Bulletin·No. 14·Week of October 19, 2026·Next release October 27, 2026

Diesel climbed 9.7¢ this week to $6.276 a gallon - up $2.656 from a year ago. Here's the national number, all ten EIA regions, and the per-mile fuel-surcharge math that runs off it.

$6.276/gal

U.S. average · week of October 19, 2026▲+$0.097 week over week · ▲+$2.656 year over year

The U.S. average on-highway diesel price is $6.276 per gallon for the week of October 19, 2026, up $0.097 from last week.
A year ago (October 20, 2025) the U.S. average was $3.620 - the price is up $2.656 year-over-year.
The highest regional average this week is California at $8.242; the lowest is Lower Atlantic at $5.740.
This is the EIA (“DOE”) weekly index that fuel-surcharge schedules reference. Next release: October 27, 2026.

Running a fuel-surcharge schedule off this index? This week's number is already plugged into the fuel surcharge calculator and the printable FSC matrix. Need the current rate by region? See the current fuel surcharge table. New to the index? Start with what the DOE diesel price is, how the peg price works, and what a PADD is.

The cash-flow side: at this week's index, a 1,000-mile load at 6 MPG is about $1,046 of diesel paid at the pump - often weeks before the broker's check clears. How owner-operators bridge that gap: freight factoring, explained.

Diesel price by region, week of October 19, 2026

Average on-highway diesel by EIA region, week of October 19, 2026 - darker shading = more expensive; click a region. PADD 5 includes AK and HI (counted in West Coast); East Coast (PADD 1) is 1A+1B+1C combined.

Region	$/gal (week of October 19, 2026)	Week change	Year change
United States	$6.276	▲+$0.097	▲+$2.656
East Coast (PADD 1)	$5.984	▲+$0.076	▲+$2.309
New England (PADD 1A)	$6.470	▲+$0.029	▲+$2.527
Central Atlantic (PADD 1B)	$6.508	▲+$0.037	▲+$2.630
Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C)	$5.740	▲+$0.095	▲+$2.162
Midwest (PADD 2)	$6.352	▲+$0.093	▲+$2.788
Gulf Coast (PADD 3)	$5.903	▲+$0.094	▲+$2.647
Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)	$6.422	▲+$0.120	▲+$2.837
West Coast (PADD 5)	$7.394	▲+$0.154	▲+$2.973
West Coast less California	$6.659	▲+$0.156	▲+$2.651
California	$8.242	▲+$0.151	▲+$3.344

Regions are EIA's Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADDs) - state-by-state map here. Click a region for its own page, chart, and full-history CSV.

Diesel is $1.992 above regular gasoline this week - see the gap back to 1990.

Last 52 weeks

U.S. average on-highway diesel, last 52 weeks (through October 19, 2026). Source: EIA weekly survey.

Longer view: annual averages back to 1994 · every week of 2026 · all-time records. Download the raw series: U.S. weekly CSV · latest.json · all downloads. Put the number on your own site with the free auto-updating widget.

Prices are U.S. EIA weekly retail on-highway diesel survey averages: stations are surveyed each Monday and the average is released the next day, Tuesday around 10 a.m. ET (Wednesday after Monday federal holidays - see the release schedule). Fuel-surcharge contracts commonly call this “the DOE index.” Source and methodology: about page.