Smithtown's Power Outages Drop

Power ouages are starting to decrease in the Town of Smithtown.

As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, there are 50,025 homes without power. That is more than 1,000 less than there were at 6 a.m. when 51,403 homes were in the dark.

Specifically in Smithtown, St. James, Nesconset, Head of the Harbor, Village of the Branch and Nissequogue, there are 33,214 outages. At 6 a.m. there were 34,595 outages.

Here is a breakdown of what areas are missing power:

• Smithtown – 18,365
• St. James – 6,876
• Nesconset – 3,197
• Village of the Branch – 2,252
• Head of the Harbor – 1,453
• Nissequogue – 1,071

The outages in Suffolk County have also dropped to 386,033 at 4 p.m. from the 409,662 outages at 6 a.m.

Check out LIPA's outage map here.