1-month forward price of natural gas (USD/MMBtu) - United States - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward natural gas prices in the US
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In US derivatives markets, the 1-month forward price of natural gas was 2.888 USD/MMBtu on 28 August 2026, versus 2.914 on 27 August. This marks a decrease of 0.89 percent.
Sample. This daily series has 3,825 observations in total. The series covers the period extending from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: the forward price had an average value of 3.260 USD/MMBtu; it reached a trough of 1.493 on 25 June 2020; it peaked at 9.678 on 22 August 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | 2.905 |
| 2026-08-27 | 2.914 |
| 2026-08-28 | 2.888 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 1-month forward price of natural gas |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Forward price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | USD/MMBtu |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on market data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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