Colorado’s Home Natural Gas Price Rose 54.7% From 2020 to 2025. Here’s What That Means for Your Bills
Colorado homes used more than nine times as much natural gas in January 2025 as they did in July.
So when the price climbs, you feel it most in the coldest months.
Here’s how much Colorado’s home natural gas price has risen since 2020, and what it could mean for your winter bills.
Note: This is general information, not financial advice. Prices and utility rates are subject to change.
Price Then and Now
Home natural gas in Colorado cost $11.17 per thousand cubic feet (Mcf) in 2025, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
In 2020, the same price was $7.22.
That’s a 54.7% increase.
Put another way, each Mcf cost $3.95 more in 2025 than in 2020.
Before you picture that on your gas bill, keep in mind that it’s a price for each Mcf, not a bill.
Nothing in the number says how much gas your home burned.
The Math Behind Colorado’s 54.7%
Colorado’s 54.7% natural gas increase comes from dividing the price gap by the 2020 price.
The gap is $11.17 minus $7.22.
Divide $3.95 by the 2020 price of $7.22, and you get 0.547.
Flip it around, and the 2025 price is about 1.55 times the 2020 price.
Take 10 Mcf as a round number: At 2020’s price, that costs $72.20, and at 2025’s price, it costs $111.70.
Your home may burn more or less than 10 Mcf, so treat those figures as unit math, not as a bill.
Year by Year
The price didn’t move in a straight line between 2020 and 2025.
It reached $9.11 in 2021.
In 2022, it hit $12.72, which was 76.2% above 2020’s price.
That 2022 figure is also the highest annual price in the series, which runs back to 1967.
If you remember 2022 as the year gas got expensive, your memory matches the numbers.
Then the price fell to $11.88 in 2023 and $10.58 in 2024.
In 2025, it turned back up to $11.17, a 5.6% rise over 2024.
That still left it about 12% under the 2022 peak.
Earlier Price Spikes
Before 2022, the residential price in Colorado had topped $10 an Mcf only twice.
Those were 2005 and 2006.
The 2005 price was $10.29, and the 2006 price was $10.45.
The price fell to $8.84 by 2007 and $8.13 by 2010.
From 2010 through 2020, the annual price never left the range of $7.22 to $8.89, and the 2014 price was the top of it.
If you measure today’s price against 2020, you’re starting from a low point because 2020’s $7.22 was lower than any annual price from 2004 through 2019.
What Sits Behind the Price
Two main price parts make up the price of home natural gas.
Those parts are the gas itself and the cost of moving it by pipeline to your home.
The share of each part can vary with natural gas market conditions.
A citygate price is the price of gas at the point where a utility receives it from a pipeline.
Colorado’s citygate price was $2.74 an Mcf in 2020 and $4.22 in 2025.
That’s an increase of $1.48, while the residential price rose $3.95 over the same years.
In 2021, the citygate price rose $4.07 to $6.81, but the residential price rose only $1.89 to $9.11.
The next year, the citygate price fell to $6.61 while the residential price reached $12.72.
The gap grew too.
It went from $4.48 in 2020 to $6.95 in 2025.
That makes the citygate price only one piece of the price delivered to your home for each Mcf.
Neighbors and the Nation
Colorado’s residential price rose faster than Wyoming’s, Nebraska’s or New Mexico’s from 2020 to 2025.
Wyoming’s price went from $8.84 to $11.74, an increase of 32.8%.
Nebraska’s price rose 41.8%, from $8.04 to $11.40.
In New Mexico, the move was 39.6%, from $7.04 to $9.83.
Across the U.S., the residential price went from $10.78 to $15.34, a 42.3% increase.
Colorado’s 54.7% topped all four.
Colorado also started from a low base, since only New Mexico’s 2020 price was lower among those states.
In 2025, Colorado’s $11.17 was below Wyoming’s $11.74 and Nebraska’s $11.40, but above New Mexico’s $9.83.
If you’ve ever compared notes with a relative in Wyoming, you’d have found that 2025 price of $11.74 was about 57 cents above Colorado’s.
Even so, Colorado’s 2025 price of $11.17 was $4.17 below the U.S. figure of $15.34.
Month by Month
The 2025 monthly price ran from $9.75 in February to $17.41 in August.
On the 2025 statewide average, the gas you burn in winter cost less for each Mcf than the gas you burn in summer.
January through March, plus November and December, all came in under the year’s $11.17.
April, at $11.67, was the first month to top that figure, and every month through October stayed above it.
May reached $13.02.
June hit $16.23, before the price dropped to $12.28 by October.
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Usage Behind Your Bill
Colorado homes used 27,060 million cubic feet of natural gas in January 2025 and only 2,903 million in July.
That's more than nine times as much.
If you've ever wondered why your January bill dwarfs your July bill, that gap is a big reason.
Usage doubled from 8,526 million cubic feet in October 2025 to 17,250 million in December.
Usage swings harder than price.
Over the longer run, total gas used by Colorado homes fell from 136,586 million cubic feet in 2020 to 128,411 million in 2025, a 6.0% drop.
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