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Gas Line Repair in Woodland, WA
About 13% of homes in Woodland are on mains gas and 2% on propane. The split matters because a meter is a legal boundary and a propane tank is not.
Read this first
Mains gas heats 13% of homes in Woodland and tank gas another 2%. The difference matters more than the fault does at first, because only one of the two has a meter outlet where the utility's responsibility stops.
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, and do not call us — we are a referral service, not an emergency line. The full list, in order.
How Woodland is supplied
The split here means a contractor may be quoting on either arrangement, and the first question is which. On mains it also matters which side of the meter the fault is on, because one side may not be a contractor job at all.
| Households in Woodland | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 13% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 2% |
| Electricity | 70% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | under 1% |
| Wood and everything else | 15% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 5,611 occupied housing units. 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. Service line definition: 49 CFR § 192.3, via PHMSA interpretation PI-12-0003.
Across Washington as a whole, 39% of households are on mains gas and 2% on tank propane. Woodland sits 26 points below the state on mains and about level with it on propane. That distance from the state average is the whole argument for publishing a town figure at all.
Before anyone digs on the property
One free call before any excavation. PHMSA is blunt about why: excavation damage is the leading cause of pipeline incidents, and 8-1-1 raises the odds of avoiding one to 99 in 100. It applies to a fence post as much as a foundation.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
If any part of the job is in the ground, ask when they are calling 8-1-1 and whether a private line may be in the way. Both answers should come before the excavation, not during it.
Other Washington towns we route in
- Woodinville 61% mains gas · 2% tank propane
- Bellingham 39% mains gas · 6% tank propane
- La Center 30% mains gas · 1% tank propane
- Gig Harbor 39% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- Everett 34% mains gas · 2% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Washington
Washington licenses are issued by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, 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.
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. We serve Woodland for plumbing that has nothing to do with gas.
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