Powerball Number Frequency

Last updated: Jul 27, 2026, 7:08 PM ET

This page counts how often every Powerball number has actually been drawn — all 69 white balls and all 26 red Powerballs — using only drawings held under the current game matrix. The Powerball number frequency counts are recomputed from the full official draw record on every page load, so the tables below are never a stale snapshot. One thing before you read them: Powerball number frequency is a record of the past, not a forecast. Every ball has exactly the same probability in the next drawing, and nothing in these tables changes that.

Most Common Powerball Numbers: All 69 White Balls

The table covers the 1,380 drawings held from October 7, 2015 through Saturday, July 25, 2026, sorted from most-drawn to least-drawn. If the draws were perfectly uniform, each white ball would have appeared about 100.0 times (1,380 draws × 5 balls ÷ 69 numbers) — that is the benchmark the third column measures against. The most common Powerball numbers sit a modest distance above that line, the least common a similar distance below it. Powerball number frequency here means one thing only: the number of official drawings in which that ball was among the five white balls drawn.

Least Common Powerball Numbers — and Why the Gap Is Normal

At the top of the table, white ball 21 has been drawn 123 times. At the bottom, white ball 13 has been drawn 75 times — a spread of 48 appearances against a uniform benchmark of 100.0. That spread looks meaningful, and it is the reason frequency pages exist, but it is exactly what genuinely random draws produce. When you take a few thousand samples from a uniform pool — here, five balls per drawing across roughly a decade — the counts do not land in a neat flat line. Random variation guarantees that some numbers run ahead of the benchmark and some run behind it, and the size of the gap you see above is typical for a sample of this size. A perfectly flat frequency table would actually be the suspicious outcome, not this one.

This is worth sitting with, because the least common Powerball numbers attract a specific bad argument: that they are somehow owed an appearance. They are not. The gap between the top and bottom of this table says nothing about the next drawing. It says only that in a finite sample of random draws, spread happens — and the longer the game runs under this matrix, the smaller that spread becomes as a share of each ball's total count.

Red Powerball Frequency: All 26 Balls

The red Powerball is drawn from its own separate pool of 26 numbers, one per drawing, so its uniform benchmark is different: about 53.1 appearances per ball (1,380 draws ÷ 26 numbers). The most-drawn red ball, 4, has appeared 65 times; the least-drawn, 16, has appeared 40 times. Because only one red ball is drawn per night instead of five, each red ball has fewer total appearances than a white ball, and percentage swings around the benchmark run wider. That is a sample-size effect, not a property of the balls.

Why This Powerball Number Frequency Table Starts on October 7, 2015

Every count on this page comes from drawings on or after 2015-10-07 — the night Powerball switched to its current matrix of five white balls from 69 and one red Powerball from 26. Before that date the game used a smaller number pool. That single fact is why the cutoff matters: a frequency table that reaches back further is comparing balls that had unequal opportunity to appear. High numbers that entered the game in 2015 would look artificially rare next to numbers that have existed since 2010, and any ranking built on that mix is measuring the rule change, not the balls.

Many Powerball number frequency sites get this wrong and count the full archive anyway, which quietly poisons every row of their tables. If you compare our counts against another site and the numbers disagree, check their counting window first — it is almost always the explanation. Our full archive still exists and is useful for other things: the past drawings page lists every draw since 2010, and the year archives such as 2016 and 2025 let you walk a single year draw by draw. For frequency, though, only the current-matrix window produces an honest comparison.

Past Powerball Number Frequency Does Not Predict the Next Draw

The drawing machine has no memory. Each drawing takes five balls from 69 and one from 26, and every combination is equally likely every single time — the odds page walks through the arithmetic. A ball that has led this table for years is not more likely to appear on the next draw night, and a ball at the bottom is not building toward an appearance. There is no mechanism by which past draws could reach forward and tilt the next one.

You will see other sites dress frequency up in temperature language — labels like "hot" for recent frequent numbers, "cold" for absent ones, and "due" or "overdue" for long gaps. Those labels are statistically empty. They describe the past accurately and imply something about the future dishonestly, because the implication is exactly what independence rules out. We publish the same underlying counts those sites use; we just decline to attach a prediction to them, because no prediction exists.

The One Way Number Choice Actually Matters

There is a single legitimate strategic point in this territory, and it has nothing to do with which balls get drawn. It is about which numbers get played. Millions of players pick birthdays and anniversaries, which concentrates tickets on 1 through 31. Your numbers' probability of being drawn is untouched by this — but if a heavily played combination wins a shared-pool prize, more tickets split it. Picking less-played numbers cannot help you win; it can slightly reduce sharing if you do. Numbers drawn and numbers played are different datasets, and this page measures only the first.

How to Use This Powerball Number Frequency Page

Use it for what it is: a factual lookup, recomputed on every request. It answers "how often has 23 come up" with an exact count and an exact window. It is a fine way to pick numbers for a slip if you enjoy the ritual — numbers chosen from this table are neither better nor worse than a Quick Pick, and knowing that frees you to choose however you like. It is also a useful instrument for checking claims: when an article says a number is "hot," you can look up its actual Powerball number frequency here and see whether the count is even unusual against the uniform benchmark. Once you have numbers in hand, check your ticket against any drawing, or browse the full drawing history to see the raw draws these counts are built from.

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