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Gas Line Repair in Utah
Across the 48 Utah towns we route calls in, 83% of households are on mains gas and 2% on bottled or tank propane. Those are two different arrangements with two different answers about who owns the pipe.
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Utah runs 83% mains gas against 2% tank propane across the 48 covered towns. The difference decides ownership: a meter outlet marks where the utility's responsibility stops, and a tank installation is the owner's throughout.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey table B25040; the service line boundary is 49 CFR § 192.3.
If you smell gas right now
Leave the building on foot. Do not use a phone or a light switch inside. Call 911 and your gas utility from somewhere else — not us. The full list, in order.
How Utah is supplied
| Households in Utah | Share | Homes |
|---|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 83% | 700,632 |
| Bottled or tank propane | 2% | 13,234 |
Weighted across 844,366 occupied homes. The spread inside the state is the point: Hooper is highest on mains at 95%, and Goshen has the largest propane share at 52%. A state figure describes neither.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. B25040 records what heats the house, which is the best available guide to whether a property has mains gas or a tank — it does not count service lines directly.
The two arrangements, and why the difference is not cosmetic
Of the 48 towns we route in here, 47 are mostly on mains gas, 1 have a substantial propane share, 0 are split between the two and 0 use very little gas of any kind.
On a mains connection, 49 CFR § 192.3 ends the regulated service line at "the outlet of the customer meter or at the connection to a customer’s piping, whichever is further downstream" — so part of the system is the operator’s. On propane there is no service line and no meter boundary, and the whole installation is the property owner’s.
Source: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Before anyone digs, anywhere in Utah
PHMSA describes excavation damage as the leading cause of pipeline incidents, and puts a caller’s chance of avoiding one at 99 percent. 8-1-1 is nationwide, toll-free and free to use. Ask what they will and will not mark — privately owned buried line frequently is not.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
Checking a plumber in Utah
Utah licenses are issued by the Utah Division of Professional Licensing, Department of Commerce, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Gas work is separately permitted and separately licensed in most jurisdictions, so ask specifically about gas rather than plumbing in general.
Towns we route in Utah
- Alpine 91% mains · 0% propane
- American Fork 85% mains · 1% propane
- Bingham Canyon 87% mains · 0% propane
- Bountiful 88% mains · 1% propane
- Centerville 89% mains · 2% propane
- Clearfield 86% mains · 2% propane
- Draper 82% mains · 1% propane
- Eagle Mountain 84% mains · 1% propane
- Eden 76% mains · 9% propane
- Farmington 91% mains · under 1% propane
- Goshen 12% mains · 52% propane
- Heber City 82% mains · 4% propane
- Herriman 85% mains · 2% propane
- Hill Air Force Base 74% mains · 4% propane
- Hooper 95% mains · 0% propane
- Huntsville 71% mains · 7% propane
- Kaysville 85% mains · 1% propane
- Layton 85% mains · 1% propane
- Lehi 84% mains · 2% propane
- Lindon 87% mains · under 1% propane
- Magna 92% mains · 1% propane
- Mapleton 92% mains · under 1% propane
- Midvale 77% mains · 2% propane
- Midway 83% mains · 3% propane
- Morgan 89% mains · 2% propane
- North Salt Lake 85% mains · under 1% propane
- Ogden 83% mains · 1% propane
- Orem 77% mains · 2% propane
- Park City 89% mains · 2% propane
- Payson 82% mains · 4% propane
- Pleasant Grove 86% mains · 2% propane
- Provo 75% mains · 3% propane
- Riverton 90% mains · 1% propane
- Roy 87% mains · 1% propane
- Salem 89% mains · 1% propane
- Salt Lake City 80% mains · 2% propane
- Sandy 86% mains · 1% propane
- Santaquin 76% mains · 6% propane
- Saratoga Springs 84% mains · under 1% propane
- South Jordan 85% mains · 2% propane
- Spanish Fork 81% mains · 3% propane
- Springville 83% mains · 2% propane
- Syracuse 90% mains · 0% propane
- Vineyard 67% mains · 1% propane
- West Jordan 87% mains · 1% propane
- West Valley City 87% mains · 1% propane
- Willard 92% mains · 1% propane
- Woods Cross 85% mains · 2% propane
For repair work, not for a suspected leak.If you can smell gas, leave and call 911 or your utility from outside; this is the wrong number for that. For everything else — a line, a meter, an appliance connection — we will route you to a contractor covering your area, free of charge to you. Gas work heads this site; other plumbing is handled too.
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