2-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 2-month forward price of natural gas was 2.785 USD/MMBtu on 13 August 2026, compared to 2.848 on 12 August 2026. This represents a reduction of 2.21 percent.
Sample. There are 3,814 observations in the daily time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time period extending from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: the forward price averaged 3.306 USD/MMBtu; it hit a minimum of 1.556 on 25 June 2020; it reached its highest level of 9.651 on 22 August 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 2.828 |
| 2026-08-12 | 2.848 |
| 2026-08-13 | 2.785 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 2-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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