Drawings in this set that included it.
Count if every number in the pool shared the drawings equally.
By appearances in this pool.
November 7, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Powerball white ball 61 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 127 times. That is 23.2 appearances above 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 61 ranks 2nd.
The last appearance was November 7, 2026, which is 2 drawings ago. That gap ranks 56th longest in the pool, tied with 4 other numbers. The longest miss lasted 40 drawings, after July 25, 2020 and before it returned on December 16, 2020.
The appearance before the latest one was September 14, 2026, 23 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 11.2 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2016–2025), 2022 had the most appearances, 17. 2020 had the fewest, 8. 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 November 7, 2026: white balls 3, 36, 37, 56, 61, and Powerball 21, multiplier 2×.
When Powerball white ball 61 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 69 (15 times), white ball 51 (14 times), and white ball 3 (13 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 4 (11 times), Powerball 21 (8 times), and Powerball 1 (7 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 60 (96 appearances) and white ball 62 (113 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 127 appearances of Powerball white ball 61. The earliest of them is December 30, 2015. That full-file count matches the matrix count above, which is what you would expect when the ball was not in the older rows.
A gap of 2 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
- November 7, 2026: white balls 3, 36, 37, 56, 61, and Powerball 21, multiplier 2×
- September 14, 2026: white balls 19, 20, 57, 61, 67, and Powerball 22, multiplier 2×
- August 19, 2026: white balls 10, 21, 58, 61, 64, and Powerball 17, multiplier 2×
- August 5, 2026: white balls 14, 20, 59, 60, 61, and Powerball 25, multiplier 2×
- June 17, 2026: white balls 3, 26, 49, 53, 61, and Powerball 12, multiplier 2×
- May 18, 2026: white balls 4, 13, 34, 61, 65, and Powerball 12, multiplier 2×
- April 18, 2026: white balls 24, 25, 39, 46, 61, and Powerball 1, multiplier 5×
- March 28, 2026: white balls 11, 42, 43, 59, 61, and Powerball 25, multiplier 4×
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- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
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