Note 13 - Pension Plans and Other Postretirement Benefits - Assumed Medical Cost Trend Rates (Details) - Other Postretirement Benefits Plan [Member]	12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2023	Sep. 30, 2022
Rate to which the medical cost trend rate is assumed to decline (the ultimate medical cost trend rate)	5.00%	5.00%
Year the rate reaches the ultimate trend	2030	2028
Spire Alabama And Spire Missouri [Member]
Medical cost trend assumed for next year - Spire Alabama and Spire Missouri	6.50%	6.75%

Assumed rate, for next fiscal year, based on annual change in cost of health care cost benefits used to measure expected cost of benefits covered by defined benefit postretirement plan. Factors include, but are not limited to, estimate of health care inflation, change in health care utilization or delivery pattern, technological advances, and change in health status of participant. Excludes factors for change in composition of plan population by age and dependency status.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 20
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (l)
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147480506/715-20-50-1

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