Midwest jet fuel inventory ·EIA week ending August 21, 2026
Midwest jet fuel storage holds 8.1 M bbl as of August 21, 2026, up 0.4% week over week. It is currently building faster than usual.
The Desk's read
Midwest aviation fuel is filling faster than almost any stretch in the record; the trailing 13-report build sits at the 97 percentile of all such stretches, where 100 marks the build-side extreme. That pace moves a mid-range pile: at 8.1 MM bbl as of 2026-08-21, stocks rank the 81st percentile of the 37-year record, highest since Jan 2026. A fast build onto a mid-range base leaves it mid-range. Watch the pace in next Wednesday's EIA weekly report.
Midwest (PADD 2) jet fuel inventory
September 3, 2021 to August 21, 2026
Weekly PADD 2 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, the aviation grade, 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 jet fuel series. Midwest jet fuel keeps Chicago O'Hare flying alongside the overnight air-freight superhubs at Memphis and Louisville, so this district's stock level is a read on passenger and parcel volumes at once.
Today's reading sits in the upper part of the EIA record going back to 1990. Midwest jet fuel stocks are running above their typical level.
Weekly PADD 2 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 ↗
Midwest jet fuel 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 kerosene-type jet fuel held in tanks and terminals across PADD 2 (Midwest). It is the EIA's regional cut of the same weekly ending-stocks series the national jet fuel page tracks, and the five districts sum to the US total.
More questions
- Why do Midwest jet fuel inventories matter?
- Midwest jet fuel keeps Chicago O'Hare flying alongside the overnight air-freight superhubs at Memphis and Louisville, so this district's stock level is a read on passenger and parcel volumes at once.
- 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.