16-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 16-month forward price of natural gas stood at 4.179 USD/MMBtu on 13 August 2026, compared to 4.178 on 12 August. This marks a gain of 0.02 percent.
Sample. There are 3,814 data points in the daily series shown in the chart above. The series covers the period extending from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: the forward price had a mean value of 3.444 USD/MMBtu; it hit a trough of 2.185 on 28 February 2020; it recorded its highest level of 6.468 on 14 September 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 4.173 |
| 2026-08-12 | 4.178 |
| 2026-08-13 | 4.179 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 16-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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