Gas Line Repair in Parma, ID
About 21% of homes in Parma are on mains gas and 9% on propane. The split matters because a meter is a legal boundary and a propane tank is not.
Read this first
Parma splits between mains and tank gas, at 21% on utility gas and 9% on bottled. Which one a property has decides where responsibility changes hands: a meter outlet marks the boundary on mains gas, while a tank puts the whole installation on the owner.
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 Parma is supplied
Two arrangements in one town, and the difference is not cosmetic. A mains connection has a meter, and 49 CFR § 192.3 ends the regulated service line at its outlet. A propane installation has no meter boundary and belongs to the property owner end to end.
Establish which you have before anything else on this page applies.
| Households in Parma | Share |
|---|---|
| Utility (mains) gas | 21% |
| Bottled or tank propane | 9% |
| Electricity | 56% |
| Fuel oil and kerosene | 3% |
| Wood and everything else | 11% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 2,169 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 Idaho as a whole, 62% of households are on mains gas and 3% on tank propane. Parma sits 41 points below the state on mains and 6 points above it on propane. That is the gap a statewide number papers over, and the reason the figures above are this town’s rather than the state’s.
Before anyone digs on the property
8-1-1 is free and nationwide, and PHMSA gives callers a 99 percent chance of avoiding an incident, injury or worse. Ask them what they will and will not mark: privately owned buried lines on your own side of the meter frequently are not covered.
Source: PHMSA, 811 Day.
What to ask whoever quotes it
Ask how much gas work they actually do, not whether they can. Gas is separately licensed in most jurisdictions and plenty of capable plumbers do very little of it.
Other Idaho towns we route in
- Caldwell 56% mains gas · 3% tank propane
- New Plymouth 23% mains gas · 10% tank propane
- Star 79% mains gas · 4% tank propane
- Malad City 1% mains gas · 55% tank propane
- Notus 0% mains gas · 4% tank propane
Checking a plumber in Idaho
Idaho licenses are issued by the Idaho State Plumbing Board, Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, 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. Other Parma requests are covered by the same line.
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