Powerball · White ball profile
White ball 5 history and statistics
How number 5 has appeared across 1,422 Powerball drawings since the October 2015 format change.
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What the numbers mean
Across 1,422 drawings, White ball 5 appeared 94 times. A perfectly fair draw would produce about 103 appearances, so this number is running 8.8% fewer than expected. That is well inside normal random variation for a dataset this size. On average that is 8.5 appearances per year.
Each drawing is independent. Nothing on this page changes the odds of White ball 5 being drawn next time—those odds are 5 in 69 every single draw, regardless of history.
Recent performance
Number 5 by drawing range
Appearance history
Most recent appearances
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Winning numbers after each drawing, or a weekly summary of how the statistics moved. No picks, no predictions, no hype.
Historical patterns are not predictions.
Every valid Powerball combination has the same mathematical probability in the next independent drawing.