4-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 4-month forward price of natural gas was 3.648 USD/MMBtu on 28 August 2026, versus 3.676 on 27 August 2026. This marks a decrease of 0.76 percent.
Sample. There are 3,825 data points in the daily time series shown in the plot above. The time range covered by the series is from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: the forward price reached its minimum of 1.791 USD/MMBtu on 25 June 2020; it reached its maximum of 9.813 on 22 August 2022; it had a mean of 3.408.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | 3.631 |
| 2026-08-27 | 3.676 |
| 2026-08-28 | 3.648 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 4-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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