Powerball number frequency, odds and draw history

Powerball draws 5 numbers from 69, plus one Powerball from 26. This page counts 1,431 draws under the current rules, from October 7, 2015 to November 9, 2026, sold in every participating US jurisdiction, 21 of which this app catalogues.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 1,431 draws each ball should turn up about 104 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 84 and 123. 6 of the 69 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 3 there, so this is an ordinary result. 63 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
21	128	above the band	8
61	127	above the band	1
64	126	above the band	3
28	121	typical	12
23	120	typical	3
32	120	typical	9
36	119	typical	1
27	118	typical	37
33	118	typical	13
63	117	typical	37
69	117	typical	12
3	115	typical	1
53	115	typical	2
37	114	typical	1
47	114	typical	5
16	113	typical	5
44	113	typical	8
59	113	typical	16
62	113	typical	31
52	110	typical	19
6	109	typical	17
39	109	typical	27
18	107	typical	4
12	106	typical	10
19	106	typical	7
40	105	typical	19
50	105	typical	4
2	104	typical	4
56	104	typical	1
67	104	typical	24
30	103	typical	20
45	103	typical	0
66	103	typical	3
4	102	typical	4
17	102	typical	18
20	102	typical	24
11	101	typical	5
24	101	typical	10
31	101	typical	9
42	101	typical	9
54	101	typical	6
57	101	typical	8
58	100	typical	21
15	99	typical	2
43	99	typical	53
68	99	typical	22
7	97	typical	3
8	97	typical	9
14	97	typical	14
38	97	typical	12
9	96	typical	21
29	96	typical	3
55	96	typical	7
60	96	typical	5
1	95	typical	8
5	95	typical	7
10	95	typical	29
41	94	typical	0
48	94	typical	0
65	94	typical	14
35	93	typical	10
22	92	typical	12
51	92	typical	12
25	91	typical	23
34	87	typical	0
49	85	typical	6
26	84	below the band	6
46	84	below the band	11
13	80	below the band	0

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 1,431 draws each ball should turn up about 55 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 40 and 70. 1 of the 26 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 1 there, so this is an ordinary result. 25 balls are indistinguishable from random.

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
14	68	typical	not in this era
4	66	typical	not in this era
21	65	typical	not in this era
20	63	typical	not in this era
24	63	typical	not in this era
18	62	typical	not in this era
5	61	typical	not in this era
25	61	typical	not in this era
1	60	typical	not in this era
3	59	typical	not in this era
9	59	typical	not in this era
2	56	typical	not in this era
13	54	typical	not in this era
23	54	typical	not in this era
26	54	typical	not in this era
6	52	typical	not in this era
19	52	typical	not in this era
10	51	typical	not in this era
11	49	typical	not in this era
7	48	typical	not in this era
12	48	typical	not in this era
22	48	typical	not in this era
15	47	typical	not in this era
8	46	typical	not in this era
17	45	typical	not in this era
16	40	below the band	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
November 9, 2026	13 · 34 · 41 · 45 · 48 +25
November 7, 2026	3 · 36 · 37 · 56 · 61 +21
November 4, 2026	15 · 34 · 41 · 53 · 56 +21
November 2, 2026	7 · 23 · 29 · 64 · 66 +23
October 31, 2026	2 · 4 · 18 · 50 · 56 +20
October 28, 2026	11 · 13 · 16 · 47 · 60 +13
October 26, 2026	18 · 26 · 49 · 50 · 54 +1
October 24, 2026	4 · 5 · 15 · 19 · 55 +19
October 21, 2026	1 · 21 · 44 · 50 · 57 +5
October 19, 2026	8 · 31 · 32 · 42 · 48 +23

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, 3,390 Powerball draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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