18-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 18-month forward price of natural gas was 4.221 USD/MMBtu on 13 August 2026, compared to 4.229 on 12 August. This represents a reduction of 0.19 percent.
Sample. There are 3,814 observations overall in the daily series shown in the graph above. The time period covered by the series extends from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: the forward price had an average value of 3.445 USD/MMBtu; it recorded a maximum of 6.363 on 10 June 2022; it reached its lowest level of 2.212 on 6 March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 4.23 |
| 2026-08-12 | 4.229 |
| 2026-08-13 | 4.221 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 18-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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