Heat pump vs. gas furnace in Irving, TX

In Irving, the math is close enough that it comes down to how long you plan to stay. Against a like-for-like gas furnace and AC swap, going electric costs $3,500 more up front here (already netting out a $2,000 tax credit). Irving's residents would see roughly $348 a year back in running costs, putting the payback around 10.1 years. Whether that's worth it in Irving depends on how many years you expect to own the place.

The climate behind Irving's payback figure

1667 heating degree days pile up here every year, so Irving has a mild winter by US standards; the cooling side runs to 3318 cooling degree days, where summers are severe enough that cooling can dominate the annual bill. 12.9°F is the figure equipment gets sized against here — the 99th-percentile cold snap, not an average day — with a record low of 10.9°F on file. Worked through the model, that's a seasonal COP of 3.01 on the cold-climate unit fit for this climate. Below the 25°F line where a standard machine starts leaning on resistance backup, Irving sits firmly in cold-climate territory, so that's the class of unit priced here. These numbers come from DALLAS/FT WORTH INTERNATIONAL, the closest NOAA station, 4 miles out.

Irving's running-cost comparison, in dollars

Electricity use for heating alone comes out to about 1,402 kWh a year on the 2000-square-foot reference house; folding in cooling puts the electric bill near $683 a year. The gas furnace it replaces burns roughly 17 Mcf a year at 19.42 per Mcf here, for a running cost near $1,032 a year (electricity here runs 16.15¢/kWh). Buy it outright, not incrementally, and payback stretches to 38.8 years; over 15 years the net position sits $1,724 ahead.

If your home heats with electric baseboard instead of gas

Not every home in Irving has gas service. Swap the comparison to resistance heat instead of gas, and Irving's answer improves. The saving here runs about $693 a year, which recovers the extra $8,000 spent going electric in roughly 11.5 years.

Where Irving ranks in this dataset

Among 3206 cities, Irving's winter puts it at rank 2608 for severity, while its size puts it at rank 90 for population — 1 in both cases being the extreme. That's the mildest third of cities covered, where utility rates carry more of the answer than climate does.

What to do with this number in Irving

About 258,060 people live in Irving, Texas, and every number on this page is what a contractor would actually work from when quoting a system here — the point isn't to replace that quote, it's to tell you whether to bother asking for one. Here, there's no cost penalty to waiting until your current furnace or AC actually needs replacing.

Get quotes from local HVAC contractors before deciding.

Where Irving's figure comes from

Every constant behind this page — the 3.01 seasonal COP, the degree-day corrections, the equipment costs — is documented in the methodology guide. At a 12.9°F design temperature, Irving sits in cold-climate territory; the guide to that class of unit explains why.