17-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 17-month forward price of natural gas was 3.254 USD/MMBtu on 27 October 2026, compared to 3.278 on 26 October. This constitutes a reduction of 0.73 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 observations in the daily time series shown in the graph above. The time range covered by the series is from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: the forward price hit a minimum of 2.218 USD/MMBtu on 6 March 2020; it hit a maximum of 6.376 USD/MMBtu on 1 September 2022; it had a mean value of 3.452 USD/MMBtu.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 3.30400 |
| 2026-10-26 | 3.27800 |
| 2026-10-27 | 3.25400 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 17-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 (FSR); estimates from FSR energy-market model |
| 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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