5-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 5-month forward price of natural gas stood at 2.838 USD/MMBtu on 13 October 2026, versus 2.812 on the previous day. This constitutes a rise of 0.92 percent.
Sample. There are 3,857 observations in the daily series shown in the chart above. The series covers the span of time going from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: the forward price achieved a maximum of 9.833 USD/MMBtu on 22 August 2022; it registered a minimum of 1.896 on 28 February 2020; it had an average value of 3.440.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-09 | 2.82100 |
| 2026-10-12 | 2.81200 |
| 2026-10-13 | 2.83800 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 5-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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