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. 7·Week of August 31, 2026·Next release September 9, 2026

Diesel eased 5.3¢ this week to $5.599 a gallon - up $1.865 from a year ago. Here's the national number, all ten EIA regions, and the per-mile fuel-surcharge math that runs off it.

$5.599/gal

U.S. average · week of August 31, 2026▼−$0.053 week over week · ▲+$1.865 year over year

The U.S. average on-highway diesel price is $5.599 per gallon for the week of August 31, 2026, down $0.053 from last week.
A year ago (September 1, 2025) the U.S. average was $3.734 - the price is up $1.865 year-over-year.
The highest regional average this week is California at $7.218; the lowest is Lower Atlantic at $5.276.
This is the EIA (“DOE”) weekly index that fuel-surcharge schedules reference. Next release: September 9, 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. 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 $933 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 August 31, 2026

Average on-highway diesel by EIA region, week of August 31, 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 August 31, 2026)	Week change	Year change
United States	$5.599	▼−$0.053	▲+$1.865
East Coast (PADD 1)	$5.448	▼−$0.050	▲+$1.698
New England (PADD 1A)	$5.736	▲+$0.020	▲+$1.788
Central Atlantic (PADD 1B)	$5.838	▼−$0.002	▲+$1.926
Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C)	$5.276	▼−$0.074	▲+$1.607
Midwest (PADD 2)	$5.571	▼−$0.065	▲+$1.849
Gulf Coast (PADD 3)	$5.360	▼−$0.121	▲+$1.993
Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)	$5.555	▲+$0.018	▲+$1.802
West Coast (PADD 5)	$6.497	▲+$0.090	▲+$2.013
West Coast less California	$5.872	▲+$0.013	▲+$1.760
California	$7.218	▲+$0.178	▲+$2.304

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 $1.528 above regular gasoline this week - see the gap back to 1990.

Last 52 weeks

U.S. average on-highway diesel, last 52 weeks (through August 31, 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.