West Coast jet fuel inventory ·EIA week ending September 4, 2026
West Coast jet fuel storage holds 11.2 M bbl as of September 4, 2026, down 1.6% week over week. It is currently drawing faster than usual.
The Desk's read
West Coast jet fuel sits near the top of its history, 11.2 MM bbl as of 2026-09-04, among the highest levels in the 37-year record. This is kerosene-type aviation fuel held in PADD 5, the tanks refiners and airlines draw from. Barrels have slipped lately, down 0.5% over 30 days, and the trailing eight reports rank among the drain-side stretches of the record; but the pile remains amply stocked, so drawing fast from a deep pile still leaves it deep. We watch next Wednesday's EIA weekly for whether that draw pace holds.
On the September 4, 2026 figures.
West Coast (PADD 5) jet fuel inventory
September 17, 2021 to September 4, 2026
Shaded band: the same calendar week's range across the five prior years; dashed line: their average. The record low and high are on the range strip above, not in the band.
Weekly PADD 5 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 5, the West Coast district. Reported weekly by the U.S. EIA as one of five regional cuts of the national jet fuel series. West Coast jet fuel supplies Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle plus the trans-Pacific gateway routes, from a refining system with no pipeline connection to the rest of the country. Resupply beyond local refineries means marine imports, which take weeks, not days.
Since 2015, today's reading ranks in the 88th percentile. West Coast jet fuel stocks are running above the modern era's typical level. It is 1.1M bbl above its same-week five-year average. Across the full EIA record back to 1990 it ranks in the 96th 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 36 years had a higher reading for this week of the year.
Weekly PADD 5 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 ↗
West Coast jet fuel inventory: common questions
- What is PADD 5?
- PADD 5 is the West Coast district of the Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, the five regions the EIA uses to report US petroleum statistics. It covers Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. 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 5 (West Coast). 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 West Coast jet fuel inventories matter?
- West Coast jet fuel supplies Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle plus the trans-Pacific gateway routes, from a refining system with no pipeline connection to the rest of the country. Resupply beyond local refineries means marine imports, which take weeks, not days.
- 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.