Regional Fuel Index

See what the national diesel average is hiding.

National distillate stocks are down 2.6% year over year. That number lumps in Midwest build with a New England drawdown in inventory — which makes it acutely useless. Pick your lanes below and see the regions your freight actually runs through.

EIA data, week ending July 24, 2026

Your lanes

Choose origin and destination states for up to three lanes. We show you the regional distillate position and current retail diesel environment. Miles are optional — add them and we'll estimate what fuel costs you per run.

Enter one-way miles in the box beside each lane above. Include deadhead.
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The underlying numbers

This is the entire dataset the tool runs on — no black boxes. Distillate fuel oil stocks by PADD, week ending July 24, 2026.

RegionStocks (M bbl)vs. year agovs. 2 years ago
East Coast (PADD 1)22.1−16.4%−37.3%
  New England (1A)2.5−25.3%−41.1%
  Central Atlantic (1B)11.1−5.8%−37.1%
  Lower Atlantic (1C)8.5−24.7%−36.3%
Midwest (PADD 2)28.2+8.7%−11.7%
Gulf Coast (PADD 3)45.7−1.0%+2.2%
Rocky Mountain (PADD 4)3.3−9.8%−13.4%
West Coast (PADD 5)11.3−0.2%+1.8%
U.S. total110.6−2.6%−12.8%

Retail diesel by region

On-highway retail diesel, all types, dollars per gallon including taxes. EIA surveys roughly 400 outlets every Monday. —

Region$/galvs. national
Two different numbers, doing two different jobs. The stocks table above is inventory — a leading indicator of where price pressure builds next. This table is what a truck actually pays at the pump today. They disagree sometimes, and when they do it usually means a region is drawing down stock without having repriced yet. That gap is the one worth watching.
What this tool does and doesn't tell you. It shows regional inventory position and current regional retail diesel for the regions at each end of your lane. It is not a rate quote, it does not predict prices, and it does not name individual stations. It also does not know your actual route — if a lane crosses regions between its endpoints, run those states as their own lane to see them. Inventory and price are two inputs among several; refinery outages, weather, state taxes and local demand all move the number too. Use it to find which lanes deserve a closer look, not to set a surcharge on its own.
Worth keeping in perspective. The East Coast tightness is real, but national distillate production is running 5,338 thousand barrels per day — up 3.2% year over year. This is a distribution and inventory story, not a supply shortage. Distribution problems are the kind you can route around.

Sources: distillate stocks from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report, Table 6 (Stocks of Distillate, Kerosene-Type Jet Fuel, Residual Fuel Oil, and Propane/Propylene by PAD District), week ending 7/24/2026; production figure from Table 3, Refiner and Blender Net Production. Retail diesel prices from the EIA Weekly Retail Gasoline and Diesel Prices series (product EPD2D, on-highway, all types), pulled live from the EIA open data API each hour. Region definitions follow EIA PAD District boundaries. Full source log in the data vault.

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