Drawings in this set that included it.
Count if every number in the pool shared the drawings equally.
By appearances in this pool, tied with 1 other number.
October 26, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Powerball white ball 26 is tracked here on the current matrix: 5 white balls from 1 through 69 and a Powerball from 1 through 26, from October 7, 2015 through November 11, 2026. Drawings outside that window are in the full NY Open Data file, and they are reported separately because they used a different field.
In these 1,432 drawings it appeared 84 times. That is 19.8 appearances below the even-split count of 103.8. An even split gives every white ball the same share of those drawings, because five white balls are drawn from the field each time. The median count in this pool of 69 is 102.0. Powerball white ball 26 ranks 67th, tied with 1 other number.
The last appearance was October 26, 2026, which is 7 drawings ago. That gap ranks 38th longest in the pool, tied with 2 other numbers. The longest miss lasted 62 drawings, after June 3, 2020 and before it returned on January 9, 2021.
The appearance before the latest one was September 23, 2026, 14 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 17.0 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2016–2025), 2023 had the most appearances, 16. 2020 had the fewest, 3. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 6 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 2 times. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was October 26, 2026: white balls 18, 26, 49, 50, 54, and Powerball 1, multiplier 3×.
When Powerball white ball 26 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 28 (10 times), white ball 18 (9 times), and white ball 47 (9 times). A pair that leads this list is a pair that happened. The next drawing still takes five white balls from the full field.
The Powerball values in those same drawings were led by Powerball 9 (8 times), Powerball 1 (6 times), and Powerball 13 (6 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 25 (91 appearances) and white ball 27 (118 appearances). Neighbors are next to each other on the number line only. They are separate balls in the machine.
The full file holds 2,024 drawings and records 128 appearances of Powerball white ball 26. The earliest of them is February 17, 2010. The full-file count mixes older matrices, so it is the wrong denominator for a current-game rate. Use the matrix count above for that comparison.
A gap of 7 drawings leaves the odds unchanged. Each Powerball white ball has a 5-in-69 chance on the next drawing. The hot, cold, and overdue guide and the odds guide explain that at more length. This page is a record of the archive fetched November 12, 2026.
Recent drawings in this set
- October 26, 2026: white balls 18, 26, 49, 50, 54, and Powerball 1, multiplier 3×
- September 23, 2026: white balls 5, 15, 26, 29, 30, and Powerball 14, multiplier 5×
- August 12, 2026: white balls 4, 26, 66, 67, 69, and Powerball 9, multiplier 2×
- July 27, 2026: white balls 6, 26, 46, 58, 65, and Powerball 25, multiplier 2×
- July 1, 2026: white balls 2, 6, 26, 39, 68, and Powerball 6, multiplier 2×
- June 17, 2026: white balls 3, 26, 49, 53, 61, and Powerball 12, multiplier 2×
- January 21, 2026: white balls 11, 26, 27, 53, 55, and Powerball 12, multiplier 2×
- December 6, 2025: white balls 13, 14, 26, 28, 44, and Powerball 7, multiplier 2×
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Powerball white ball 25
- Powerball white ball 27
- Powerball white ball 28
- Powerball white ball 18