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.
September 26, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Powerball white ball 40 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 105 times. That is within 5 percent of 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 40 ranks 26th, tied with 1 other number.
The last appearance was September 26, 2026, which is 20 drawings ago. That gap ranks 14th longest in the pool, tied with 1 other number. The longest miss lasted 61 drawings, after March 4, 2023 and before it returned on July 26, 2023.
The appearance before the latest one was September 9, 2026, 7 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 13.6 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2016–2025), 2021 and 2025 each had the most appearances, 14. 2019 had the fewest, 3. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 6 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 September 26, 2026: white balls 14, 40, 52, 55, 57, and Powerball 24, multiplier 3×.
When Powerball white ball 40 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 50 (12 times), white ball 45 (11 times), and white ball 52 (11 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 5 (8 times), Powerball 23 (7 times), and Powerball 20 (6 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 39 (109 appearances) and white ball 41 (94 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 157 appearances of Powerball white ball 40. The earliest of them is February 13, 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 20 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
- September 26, 2026: white balls 14, 40, 52, 55, 57, and Powerball 24, multiplier 3×
- September 9, 2026: white balls 9, 40, 42, 55, 65, and Powerball 23, multiplier 2×
- September 5, 2026: white balls 15, 40, 47, 53, 59, and Powerball 9, multiplier 2×
- July 29, 2026: white balls 30, 36, 40, 42, 57, and Powerball 2, multiplier 2×
- July 13, 2026: white balls 5, 25, 36, 40, 48, and Powerball 3, multiplier 2×
- May 16, 2026: white balls 8, 37, 40, 44, 65, and Powerball 18, multiplier 3×
- February 11, 2026: white balls 6, 20, 33, 40, 48, and Powerball 5, multiplier 2×
- January 31, 2026: white balls 2, 8, 14, 40, 63, and Powerball 23, multiplier 3×
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Powerball white ball 39
- Powerball white ball 41
- Powerball white ball 50
- Powerball white ball 45