1-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 1-month forward price of natural gas stood at 2.727 USD/MMBtu on 13 August 2026, compared to 2.794 on 12 August. This represents a reduction of 2.40 percent.
Sample. In the daily series shown in the graph, there are 3,814 observations overall. The series covers the time span extending from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: the forward price reached a minimum of 1.493 USD/MMBtu on 25 June 2020; it reached its highest level of 9.678 on 22 August 2022; it averaged 3.261.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 2.767 |
| 2026-08-12 | 2.794 |
| 2026-08-13 | 2.727 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 1-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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