Does the EIA publish a diesel price for Iowa?

No. The EIA weekly on-highway diesel survey covers the United States, five PADDs, three PADD 1 sub-districts, West Coast less California, and California. Iowa is not surveyed, so this page shows Midwest (PADD 2) and labels it as a district figure.

What is the diesel tax in Iowa?

Iowa's state diesel tax is 32.5 cents per gallon. Combined with the federal diesel tax of 24.4 cents per gallon, the total tax on a gallon of diesel in Iowa is 56.9 cents, or 9 percent of the price shown above. Tax rates are the state's own per-gallon taxes and fees, checked against its revenue department on 22 October 2026, not EIA data.

EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Survey - week of October 26, 2026

Diesel cost per gallon in Iowa

$6.48/GAL

+0.13 vs US average ($6.35)EIA Midwest (PADD 2)District #5 of 9

What readers paid for diesel in Iowa

Prices readers report from the pump: what they paid, where, and how they paid. Each one is a single fill on the date shown, not a survey average; the weekly EIA figures elsewhere on this page are the survey.

No reader has reported a price in Iowa yet. Yours would be the first.

What did you pay for diesel?

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Read this as a district figure, not a state figure. The EIA weekly on-highway diesel survey prices the United States, its districts and California, and nothing else. It does not price Iowa. The number above is Midwest (PADD 2), series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R20_DPG, and it is the closest published federal figure for Iowa. We do not estimate a price for Iowa from it. 6 of Iowa's neighbouring states sit in the same district and therefore show the same price below.

EIA does not publish a weekly on-highway diesel price for Iowa. The federal survey prices the district Iowa sits in, Midwest (PADD 2), at $6.480 per gallon in the week of October 26, 2026 (series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R20_DPG), $0.13 above the US average of $6.352. Pump prices inside the district vary around that figure.

Diesel tax breakdown

Diesel fuel excise (B-19 and lower)32.5c/gal

Federal diesel excise tax24.4c/gal

Total per-gallon tax56.9c/gal

As a share of the price above9%

Interstate trucks (IFTA): 32.5c a gallon for October to December 2026.

Unchanged on 1 July 2026.

Checked 22 October 2026 against Iowa DOR, Iowa Fuel Tax Rate Change Effective July 1, 2026. Local and county taxes are not included. The percentage is against the EIA figure shown above, which is a district figure unless Iowa is surveyed directly.

Neighbouring states

same district$6.48

same district$6.48

same district$6.48

same district$6.48

same district$6.48

same district$6.48

Neighbours in the same EIA district carry the same published figure. A matching price here means the federal survey shows no measured gap across that border, not that pumps are identical.

Off-road (dyed) diesel in Iowa

Red-dyed diesel is the same fuel as clear diesel, sold without highway fuel taxes for uses off the public road. How Iowa treats it, checked 25 October 2026. Rules for every state are on the off-road diesel guide.

Temporary relief, 5 October 2026 to 4 February 2027: Vehicles hauling listed farm commodities (corn, soybeans, hay, feed, fertilizer and others) may use dyed diesel on Iowa highways without state penalties. (Governor's disaster proclamation, Iowa DOT notice of 6 October 2026; reported in the news, the order text was not found on an official site). Source

Federal: dyed diesel skips the federal diesel tax except 0.1c. IRS news release IR-2026-122 (14 October 2026) waives federal penalties for highway use of dyed diesel from 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026; state rules below still apply.

56.8ca gallon of per-gallon tax skipped: 24.3c federal and 32.5c Iowa taxes and fees, though sales tax may apply instead (below).

Iowa fuel tax on dyed diesel

Dyed diesel is always sold free of Iowa's 32.5c fuel tax.

Sales tax

6% sales tax applies unless an exemption does. Exempt with a fuel exemption certificate: fuel for implements of husbandry in farming, grain drying, livestock-building heat and processing.

Who may use it

Unlicensed vehicles, stationary engines, farm implements and nonhighway machinery. Not for idling, power take-offs or reefer units.

Penalty for highway use

$500 for a first violation, $1,000 for a second within three years, $2,000 after that, plus the tax.

Roadside testing

Yes: law enforcement, Revenue and DOT staff may inspect and search any fuel tank.

Buying it

No permit; give the seller a fuel exemption certificate for farm or processing use to avoid sales tax.

Sources: Iowa Code chapter 452A; Iowa Code chapter 423 (sales tax). This is a summary, not legal or tax advice.

CALCULATE YOUR FUEL COST IN IOWA

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Sources: price from the EIA Weekly On-Highway Diesel Fuel Price survey, week of October 26, 2026, series EMD_EPD2D_PTE_R20_DPG, a U.S. Government work in the public domain. EIA publishes no diesel price for 49 of the 50 states on this site, California being the exception; those pages show the EIA district figure and say so. State taxes checked against each state's revenue department or statute on 22 October 2026 (sources in the tax breakdown above). Actual pump prices vary by retailer and location.

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Diesel cost per gallon in Iowa

What readers paid for diesel in Iowa

What did you pay for diesel?

Diesel tax breakdown

Neighbouring states

Off-road (dyed) diesel in Iowa

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