3-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 3-month forward price of natural gas stood at 2.993 USD/MMBtu on 13 August 2026, compared to 3.071 on the previous day. This constitutes a decrease of 2.54 percent.
Sample. There are 3,814 data points overall in the daily time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the period stretching from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we computed on the whole sample: the forward price averaged 3.362 USD/MMBtu; it recorded its maximum of 9.717 on 22 August 2022; it recorded a bottom of 1.629 on 26 June 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 3.069 |
| 2026-08-12 | 3.071 |
| 2026-08-13 | 2.993 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 3-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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