6-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 6-month forward price of natural gas was 2.710 USD/MMBtu on 13 October 2026, compared to 2.686 on 12 October. This marks an increase of 0.89 percent.
Sample. There are 3,857 records overall in the daily series presented in the plot above. The period covered by the series is from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics computed on the whole sample: the forward price averaged 3.455 USD/MMBtu; it recorded a maximum of 9.309 on 7 June 2022; it hit a trough of 1.921 on 28 February 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-09 | 2.66500 |
| 2026-10-12 | 2.68600 |
| 2026-10-13 | 2.71000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 6-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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