4-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 4-month forward price of natural gas stood at 3.555 USD/MMBtu on 13 August 2026, compared to 3.649 on 12 August. This represents a reduction of 2.58 percent.
Sample. There are 3,814 data points overall in the daily series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: the forward price averaged 3.408 USD/MMBtu; it recorded its maximum of 9.813 on 22 August 2022; it reached its minimum of 1.791 on 25 June 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 3.655 |
| 2026-08-12 | 3.649 |
| 2026-08-13 | 3.555 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 4-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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