Heat Pump Payback in Logan, UT
Heat pump vs. gas furnace in Logan, UT
Logan is a place where a heat pump genuinely costs more to operate than the alternative. Swap a failed furnace and AC for a heat pump rather than buying like-for-like, and the extra cost here runs $5,500. Running costs here land $49 a year higher than the furnace it replaces, so that premium is never recovered. That's Logan's own climate and rates talking, not a hedge or a caveat.
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How cold Logan actually gets
Degree days tell the story here: Logan racks up 6351 heating degree days each year (base 65°F), and summers add a moderate cooling load, with 765 cooling degree days on the cooling side. 1.9°F is the figure equipment gets sized against here, the 99th-percentile cold snap, not an average day, with a low of -15°F in the 2024 station record. Worked through the model, that's a seasonal COP of 2.75 on the cold-climate unit fit for this climate. Logan needs the cold-climate class of unit: past a 25°F design temperature a standard heat pump falls back on resistance backup often enough to eat the savings. Source: NOAA station Logan-Cache Airport, 3.3 miles from Logan, the closest one on record.
What it actually costs to run, year to year
Electricity use for heating alone comes out to about 5,848 kWh a year on the 2000-square-foot reference house; folding in cooling puts the electric bill near $853 a year. That compares with roughly 66 Mcf a year of gas at Logan's $10.19 per-Mcf rate, about $804 a year with the old AC included, against a local electricity rate of 13.12¢/kWh. Because the heat pump costs more to run here, the gap only widens with time: $6,231 behind after 15 years compared with replacing the furnace and AC like-for-like.
The break-even point in Logan
For the verdict in Logan to flip, electricity would need to drop to about 12.2¢/kWh from 13.12¢, or gas climb past $10.93 per Mcf from $10.19. A utility offering a lower heat pump rate can change this. Until then, no quote price makes a heat pump pay back against gas in Logan; the case for one here rests on comfort, cooling, or replacing electric heat instead.
Electric resistance heat in Logan, compared
Plenty of homes in Logan heat with electricity alone, no gas line involved. Compared with baseboard or electric-furnace resistance heat, the numbers shift in the heat pump’s favor. The saving here runs about $1,387 a year, which recovers the extra $10,000 spent going electric in roughly 7.2 years.
How Logan compares nationally
Logan lands at position 108 out of 3206 cities on heating severity (coldest is 1), and 723 out of 3206 by population size (biggest is 1). That's the coldest third of the dataset, where climate does most of the work behind this figure.
Deciding what's next in Logan, UT
Logan, Utah is home to about 56,770 people, and the figures above are the same ones a local HVAC contractor uses to size and quote a system, this site doesn't guess where a real quote would land, it just tells you whether it's worth asking for one. In Logan, nothing is lost by holding off until the current equipment genuinely fails.
Ask a local HVAC contractor for a quote before committing either way.
Where Logan's figure comes from
Nothing above is a black box: the methodology guide shows the full arithmetic behind Logan's 2.75 seasonal COP and payback figure. Logan's 1.9°F design temperature falls on the cold side of the 25°F cutoff the cold-climate unit guide walks through.