Mega Millions · White ball profile
White ball 48 history and statistics
How number 48 has appeared across 912 Mega Millions drawings since the October 2017 format change.
What the numbers mean
Across 912 drawings, White ball 48 appeared 68 times. A perfectly fair draw would produce about 65.1 appearances, so this number is running 4.4% more than expected. That is well inside normal random variation for a dataset this size. On average that is 7.8 appearances per year.
Each drawing is independent. Nothing on this page changes the odds of White ball 48 being drawn next time—those odds are 5 in 70 every single draw, regardless of history.
Recent performance
Number 48 by drawing range
Appearance history
Most recent appearances
Draw alerts
The numbers, as soon as they are drawn.
Winning numbers after each drawing, or a weekly summary of how the statistics moved. No picks, no predictions, no hype.
Every valid Mega Millions combination has the same mathematical probability in the next independent drawing.