Powerball number frequency, odds and draw history

Powerball draws 5 numbers from 69, plus one Powerball from 26. This page counts 1,410 draws under the current rules, from October 7, 2015 to September 21, 2026, sold in every participating US jurisdiction, 21 of which this app catalogues.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 1,410 draws each ball should turn up about 102 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 83 and 122. 5 of the 69 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 3 there, so this is an ordinary result. 64 balls are indistinguishable from random.

This is the part worth reading twice. A number drawn more often than its neighbours has not become more likely, and the table below is sorted only because people expect it to be. The average wait between appearances for any one ball is 13.8 draws, so a gap several times that long is ordinary rather than overdue.

Ranked by how often each number has been drawn. Ranking is not a signal, it is what any fair draw looks like when you sort it.
Number	Times drawn	Against chance	Draws since last seen
61	126	above the band	3
21	125	above the band	2
64	125	above the band	2
28	120	typical	6
27	118	typical	16
23	117	typical	4
32	117	typical	11
36	117	typical	23
63	117	typical	16
33	116	typical	12
69	116	typical	4
53	114	typical	7
3	113	typical	8
47	113	typical	7
62	113	typical	10
37	112	typical	9
59	112	typical	7
16	111	typical	4
44	110	typical	27
39	109	typical	6
52	109	typical	49
6	108	typical	18
12	105	typical	11
18	105	typical	1
19	104	typical	3
40	104	typical	5
67	104	typical	3
2	103	typical	0
20	102	typical	3
30	102	typical	1
45	102	typical	1
50	102	typical	11
66	102	typical	17
17	101	typical	0
56	101	typical	6
24	100	typical	2
31	100	typical	13
58	100	typical	0
11	99	typical	9
43	99	typical	32
54	99	typical	13
57	99	typical	3
68	99	typical	1
4	97	typical	17
42	97	typical	5
7	96	typical	0
8	96	typical	15
9	96	typical	0
15	96	typical	6
38	96	typical	12
10	95	typical	8
14	95	typical	4
60	95	typical	20
1	93	typical	49
5	93	typical	16
29	93	typical	8
55	93	typical	5
65	93	typical	5
35	92	typical	19
41	92	typical	1
48	92	typical	21
22	91	typical	26
25	91	typical	2
51	90	typical	50
34	84	typical	45
46	83	typical	24
49	83	typical	9
26	82	below the band	17
13	76	below the band	13

The Powerball

Drawn from its own machine, one ball per draw out of 26, so it is counted on its own and compared against its own range rather than the one above. Across 1,410 draws each ball should turn up about 54 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 40 and 69. Not one of the 26 balls falls outside it.

Ranked by how often each powerball has been drawn. Ranking is not a signal, it is what any fair draw looks like when you sort it.
Powerball	Times drawn	Against chance	Draws since last seen
4	66	typical	not in this era
14	66	typical	not in this era
21	63	typical	not in this era
18	62	typical	not in this era
24	62	typical	not in this era
20	61	typical	not in this era
5	60	typical	not in this era
25	60	typical	not in this era
1	59	typical	not in this era
3	59	typical	not in this era
9	57	typical	not in this era
2	56	typical	not in this era
26	54	typical	not in this era
6	52	typical	not in this era
13	52	typical	not in this era
23	52	typical	not in this era
10	51	typical	not in this era
19	50	typical	not in this era
11	48	typical	not in this era
12	48	typical	not in this era
22	48	typical	not in this era
7	47	typical	not in this era
8	46	typical	not in this era
15	46	typical	not in this era
17	45	typical	not in this era
16	40	typical	not in this era

The odds

Matching all 5 plus the Powerball is 1 in 292,201,338. Every tier is worked from the matrix directly, so these are exact rather than rounded figures copied from a leaflet.

Exact probabilities, worked from the matrix rather than quoted from anywhere.
Match	Chance per ticket
5 of 5 + Powerball	1 in 292,201,338
5 of 5	1 in 11,688,054
4 of 5 + Powerball	1 in 913,129
4 of 5	1 in 36,525
3 of 5 + Powerball	1 in 14,494
3 of 5	1 in 580
2 of 5 + Powerball	1 in 701
2 of 5	1 in 28
1 of 5 + Powerball	1 in 92
1 of 5	1 in 4

The rules have changed 6 times

Every boundary below was derived from the published draws themselves, by walking them in order and taking the first date no earlier matrix can account for, then checked against the announced change dates. A boundary can only ever be late, never early, which keeps every draw inside the era it is filed under.

This is why the counts above are scoped to the current rules. An all-time count for Powerball would mix in draws from a different drum, where balls added later never had a chance to appear, and those balls would read as permanently cold for a reason that has nothing to do with luck.

In effect	Main pool	Bonus pool
April 22, 1992 to November 5, 1997	45	45
November 5, 1997 to October 9, 2002	49	42
October 9, 2002 to August 31, 2005	53	42
August 31, 2005 to January 7, 2009	55	42
January 7, 2009 to January 15, 2012	59	39
January 15, 2012 to October 4, 2015	59	35
October 4, 2015 to today	69	26

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
September 21, 2026	2 · 7 · 9 · 17 · 58 +20
September 19, 2026	18 · 30 · 41 · 45 · 68 +10
September 16, 2026	2 · 21 · 24 · 25 · 64 +7
September 14, 2026	19 · 20 · 57 · 61 · 67 +22
September 12, 2026	14 · 16 · 23 · 58 · 69 +3
September 9, 2026	9 · 40 · 42 · 55 · 65 +23
September 7, 2026	15 · 19 · 28 · 39 · 56 +3
September 5, 2026	15 · 40 · 47 · 53 · 59 +9
September 2, 2026	3 · 10 · 29 · 58 · 64 +14
August 31, 2026	11 · 17 · 25 · 37 · 49 +10

Where this comes from

Every draw on this page came from the jurisdiction that ran it, and the matrix was derived from that published history rather than copied from a marketing page. The full archive, 3,369 Powerball draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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