Hundreds of people have been asked to leave their homes in North Carolina and South Carolina as a half-dozen large fires are burning in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Code yellow and code orange air quality days expected from smoke creating bad air quality at times through Saturday in the Triad. Smoky haze forecast to reach Mount Airy, Winston-Salem and Greensboro in North Carolina.

At least a half-dozen large wildfires continue to burn in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina and North Carolina.

Another day of fire danger is forecast throughout the Carolinas as wildfires continue to rage due to wind, low humidity, and a tinderbox of dry, downed timber left in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

Mandatory evacuations were ordered in several counties across both states as multiple wildfires ravaged parts of North and South Carolina.