US jet fuel inventory ·EIA week ending August 28, 2026
US jet fuel storage holds 45.9 M bbl as of August 28, 2026, up 0.4% week over week.
The Desk's read
Jet fuel stocks sit near the top of their history, at the 97th percentile of the 44-year record, even as the tanks draw down. The pile stands at 45.9 MM bbl as of 2026-08-28, off 2.0% over 30 days, and the trailing 8-report change ranks in the 14th percentile of all such stretches, a fast drain by the record's standard. But a quick draw from so deep a pile still leaves it amply stocked. Watch next Wednesday's EIA weekly report for whether that drain-side pace holds.
On the August 28, 2026 figures.
US kerosene-type jet fuel inventory
September 10, 2021 to August 28, 2026
Weekly US kerosene-type jet fuel stocks, in millions of barrels. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
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About this series
Kerosene-type jet fuel ending stocks held in US refineries, bulk terminals, and pipelines. Reported weekly by the U.S. EIA alongside the crude, gasoline, and distillate totals. The barrel's clearest read on aviation demand.
Since 2015, today's reading ranks in the 96th percentile. US jet fuel stocks are ample by modern standards. It is 3.5M bbl above its same-week five-year average. Across the full EIA record back to 1982 it ranks in the 97th percentile; storage capacity, pipelines, and production have shifted enough since then that the modern cohort is the better yardstick for today's operating conditions. Only 2 of the other 43 years had a higher reading for this week of the year.
Weekly US kerosene-type jet fuel stocks, in millions of barrels. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Updated weekly. View this series at eia.gov ↗
US jet fuel inventory: common questions
- What are US jet fuel inventories?
- They are the stocks of kerosene-type jet fuel held in refineries, bulk terminals, and pipelines across the United States. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports the total every week in its Weekly Petroleum Status Report, in the ending-stocks series this page reads directly.
- What is kerosene-type jet fuel?
- It is the kerosene cut of the barrel refined to aviation specification, the fuel commercial airliners and most military jets burn. The EIA's weekly stocks series covers this grade specifically; naphtha-type jet fuel faded out of wide use decades ago and is not part of this figure.
More questions
- Why do jet fuel inventories matter?
- Jet fuel is the barrel's clearest read on air travel and air freight. Stocks build when refiners make more than airlines burn and draw when flying outpaces output, so the level and its direction track aviation demand weeks before passenger statistics appear.
- How often are jet fuel inventories 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.