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.

Wildfires in the Carolinas have taken over 10,000 acres and more evacuations, according to officials. In the Carolinas, wildfires have set 14,068.9 acres ablaze, according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission and the North Carolina Forest Service. Two of the biggest fires in North Carolina are responsible for at least half of that.