3-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 3-month forward price of natural gas was 3.186 USD/MMBtu on 28 August 2026, compared to 3.198 on 27 August 2026. This marks a reduction of 0.38 percent.
Sample. There are 3,825 observations in the daily time series displayed in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series goes from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics computed on the full sample: the forward price was equal on average to 3.361 USD/MMBtu; it hit a trough of 1.629 on 26 June 2020; it reached its highest level of 9.717 on 22 August 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | 3.153 |
| 2026-08-27 | 3.198 |
| 2026-08-28 | 3.186 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 3-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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