Abstract: In Nigeria, cooking fuels are very important in the life of every household because most of the food items must be heated, smoked, dried or cooked before consumption. As an indispensible part of life, a study was conducted to determine households’ access and preference to cooking fuels in Abuja, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted for sample selection while structured questionnaires were used for data collection. A total of 216 rural households were randomly interviewed in four agricultural zones. Data were analyzed using two-way mixed factorial analysis of variance and mean separation was done at 5% probability level. Results showed that, there were significant differences (p<0.01) in households’ access and preference to some of the cooking fuels. The mean responses indicated that the most accessible and preferable cooking fuel was firewood with mean access and preference values of 3.25 and 2.69, respectively while the least accessible and preferable cooking fuel was cooking gas. Similarly, there were significant (p<0.01) interaction effects of cooking fuels and locations implying that access and preference to each of the cooking fuels were not the same in some of the agricultural zones. Based on the results, it was concluded that households’ access and preference to some of the cooking fuels significantly differed and that firewood was the most accessible and preferable cooking fuel in the study area while cooking gas was the least. It was recommended that campaign on agro-forestry should be intensified to replace felled trees that were used as firewood.