18-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 18-month forward price of natural gas stood at 3.189 USD/MMBtu on 13 October 2026, versus 3.191 on the previous day. This represents a decrease of 0.06 percent.
Sample. There are 3,857 records in the daily time series shown in the chart above. The time range covered by the series stretches from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: the forward price was equal on average to 3.447 USD/MMBtu; it reached its lowest level of 2.212 on 6 March 2020; it hit a peak of 6.363 on 10 June 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-09 | 3.19100 |
| 2026-10-12 | 3.19100 |
| 2026-10-13 | 3.18900 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 18-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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