7-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 7-month forward price of natural gas stood at 2.962 USD/MMBtu on 13 August 2026, compared to 3.003 on 12 August 2026. This constitutes a reduction of 1.37 percent.
Sample. In the daily time series presented in the figure, there are 3,814 observations. The time span covered by the series extends from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: the forward price had a mean value of 3.469 USD/MMBtu; it hit a trough of 1.943 on 28 February 2020; it recorded its maximum of 9.386 on 7 June 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-11 | 3.009 |
| 2026-08-12 | 3.003 |
| 2026-08-13 | 2.962 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 7-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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