Midwest distillate inventory ·EIA week ending August 21, 2026
Midwest distillate storage holds 28.6 M bbl as of August 21, 2026, up 0.5% week over week. It is currently building faster than usual.
The Desk's read
The build side is quietly reasserting itself in the Midwest. Distillate stocks, the district's diesel and heating fuel, sit at 28.6 MM bbl as of 2026-08-21, the 31st percentile of the 37-year record and squarely mid-range. The recent pace tells more: the trailing 13-report change ranks at the 85 percentile of all such stretches, tilted toward building rather than draining. A near-flat 30-day change of -0.1% confirms the pile is holding. We watch next Wednesday's EIA weekly report for whether that build-side pace persists.
Midwest (PADD 2) distillate inventory
September 3, 2021 to August 21, 2026
Weekly PADD 2 distillate fuel oil stocks, in millions of barrels. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
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About this series
Distillate fuel oil, the category covering diesel and heating oil, held in tanks and terminals across PADD 2, the Midwest district. Reported weekly by the U.S. EIA as one of five regional cuts of the national distillate series. Midwest distillate is farm and freight diesel. Planting and harvest pull hard at opposite ends of the year, and the district sits on the country's main rail and trucking lanes, so its stock level is a read on the goods economy as much as on energy.
Today's reading sits in the middle of the EIA record going back to 1990. This is where Midwest distillate stocks spend most of their time.
Weekly PADD 2 distillate fuel oil stocks, in millions of barrels. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Updated weekly. View this series at eia.gov ↗
Midwest distillate inventory: common questions
- What is PADD 2?
- PADD 2 is the Midwest district of the Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, the five regions the EIA uses to report US petroleum statistics. It covers Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. The district lines were drawn for World War II fuel allocation and remain the standard regional cut of US oil data.
- What does this page track?
- The total volume of distillate fuel oil, covering diesel and heating oil, held in tanks and terminals across PADD 2 (Midwest). It is the EIA's regional cut of the same weekly series the national distillate page tracks, and the five districts sum to the US total.
More questions
- Why do Midwest distillate inventories matter?
- Midwest distillate is farm and freight diesel. Planting and harvest pull hard at opposite ends of the year, and the district sits on the country's main rail and trucking lanes, so its stock level is a read on the goods economy as much as on energy.
- How often is this figure updated?
- The EIA publishes the figure every week, typically Wednesday around 10:30 a.m. Eastern for the prior Friday's week. This page reads that same EIA series and shows the latest reading with its as-of date.