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 2 other numbers.
October 12, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Powerball white ball 38 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 97 times. That is 6.8 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 38 ranks 48th, tied with 2 other numbers.
The last appearance was October 12, 2026, which is 13 drawings ago. That gap ranks 22nd longest in the pool, tied with 3 other numbers. The longest miss lasted 59 drawings, after March 17, 2025 and before it returned on August 4, 2025.
The appearance before the latest one was August 24, 2026, 21 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 14.5 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2016–2025), 2021 had the most appearances, 15. 2020 had the fewest, 4. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 8 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 1 time. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was October 12, 2026: white balls 22, 28, 38, 51, 69, and Powerball 9, multiplier 3×.
When Powerball white ball 38 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 66 (11 times), white ball 11 (10 times), and white ball 17 (10 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 1 (8 times), Powerball 19 (8 times), and Powerball 6 (6 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 37 (114 appearances) and white ball 39 (109 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 148 appearances of Powerball white ball 38. The earliest of them is February 10, 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 13 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 12, 2026: white balls 22, 28, 38, 51, 69, and Powerball 9, multiplier 3×
- August 24, 2026: white balls 3, 16, 33, 38, 68, and Powerball 2, multiplier 2×
- July 15, 2026: white balls 2, 7, 18, 29, 38, and Powerball 16, multiplier 2×
- July 4, 2026: white balls 17, 38, 46, 50, 69, and Powerball 20, multiplier 2×
- June 24, 2026: white balls 13, 14, 16, 21, 38, and Powerball 14, multiplier 2×
- June 10, 2026: white balls 12, 31, 38, 60, 66, and Powerball 14, multiplier 2×
- June 3, 2026: white balls 14, 16, 38, 55, 64, and Powerball 12, multiplier 3×
- April 13, 2026: white balls 38, 43, 59, 63, 64, and Powerball 15, multiplier 3×
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- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Powerball white ball 37
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- Powerball white ball 66
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