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Data through Oct 16 · updated

Natural gas heats half of U.S. homes and makes about two-fifths of its power. How much is in storage against the usual for the time of year, what homes and businesses pay, and who burns it, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

BalancedGas storage is normal for the time of year: 3,644 Bcf, right on the 5-year average and inside the range of the past five years.

Watch: Winter draws: storage would fall out of its normal range below 3,394 Bcf for this week of the year.

What changed this week and in Jul 2026

  • Storage this week+77 Bcf usual +76 Bcf
  • Power plants+37 Bcf +2.5%
  • Industry+6 Bcf +0.9%
  • +2 more for members
Every headline number4 readings with their changes
Gas in storage3,644 Bcf0.0% vs 5-year averageLower 48 working gas, week ending Oct 16, 2026
Residential gas price$26.45+4.0% vs a year earlierAverage U.S. price delivered to homes, July 2026
Gas used, last 12 months33.42 Tcf+0.2% vs a year earlierTotal U.S. consumption, 12 months to July 2026
Burned for power39.6%0.0 pts vs a year earlierShare of U.S. gas use going to power plants, last 12 months
About the dataU.S. EIA · public domain · storage weekly, prices and use monthly

Working gas in underground storage in the Lower 48 states, every week since 2010, from the EIA’s Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report. The range for each week is the lowest and highest level in the same week of the previous five years; the average is theirs too. Prices are the average delivered to each kind of customer and the city-gate price utilities pay; consumption is by use, monthly from 2001. Total consumption also counts gas used by pipelines and at wells and plants, so it is larger than the four uses together.

EIA does not state a release date for each figure in its API, so the dates shown are when Point75 first saw them (2026-10-26 for storage). Henry Hub spot prices are not shown: EIA republishes them from a commercial provider. EIA data is in the public domain.

Source: Weekly working gas in underground storage (Lower 48); Natural gas prices; Natural gas consumption by end use, U.S. Energy Information Administration.

How the takeaway is decided

  • Storage within 5% of its 5-year average for the week is Normal; more than 5% over is High; more than 5% under is Low and more than 10% under Very low.
  • The home price is Rising or Falling when it moves more than 3% on a year earlier.

The words and colours come from these rules, applied to the newest data on every update; they describe the data and are not advice.