8-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 8-month forward price of natural gas stood at 2.721 USD/MMBtu on 27 October 2026, compared to 2.734 on the previous day. This constitutes a decrease of 0.48 percent.
Sample. There are 3,867 records in the daily time series shown in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series extends from January 2012 to October 2026.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: the forward price reached a trough of 2.022 USD/MMBtu on 28 February 2020; it recorded its maximum of 9.105 USD/MMBtu on 7 June 2022; it had a mean of 3.465 USD/MMBtu.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 2.67600 |
| 2026-10-26 | 2.73400 |
| 2026-10-27 | 2.72100 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 8-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 (FSR); estimates from FSR energy-market model |
| 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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