For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 OR [ ]TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Commission file number 1-16681 (Full title of the Plan) (Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the Plan and the address of its principal executive office) SPIRE EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLAN TABLE OF CONTENTSPAGEReport of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm1Financial Statements as of and for the Years Ended December 31, 2025 and 2024:Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits3Statements of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits4Notes to Financial Statements5Supplemental Schedule as of December 31, 2025:Form 5500, Schedule H, Line 4i - Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)10Signatures11Exhibit Index12 Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Plan Administrator, Spire Inc. Retirement PlansCommittee and Plan ParticipantsSpire Employee Savings PlanSt. Louis, Missouri Opinion on the Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits of the Spire Employee Savings Plan(Plan) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related statements of changes in net assets available for benefits for theyears then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, thefinancial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of thePlan as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the years then ended Basis of Opinion These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinionon these financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)(“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Plan in accordance with the U.S. federal securitieslaws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan andperform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of materialmisstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Plan is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, anaudit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding ofinternal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements,whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures includedexamining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits alsoincluded evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as Plan Administrator, Spire Inc. Retirement PlansCommittee and Plan ParticipantsSpire Employee Savings Plan Report on Supplemental Information The supplemental information in the accompanying Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year) as of December 31,2025, has been subjected to audit procedures performed in conjunction with the audit of the Plan’s financial statements.The supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our audit procedures included determiningwhether the supplemental schedule reconciles to the financial statements or the underlying accounting and other We have served as the Plan’s auditor since 2007. /s/ Forvis Mazars, LLP St. Louis, MissouriJune 25, 2026 See accompanying Notes to Financial Statements SPIRE EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLANNotes to Financial Statements 1.SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES Basis of Accounting– The accompanying financial statements of Spire Employee Savings Plan (“the Plan”) havebeen prepared on the accrual basis. Fair Value of Plan Assets–Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer aliability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. Fair value measurementsmust maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair Level 1Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quotedprices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated byobservable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities. Level 3Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fairvalue of the assets or liabilities.