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Many counties across Montana are reporting hazardous air quality today. If you're sensitive to smoke, the best bet is to stay indoors with your windows closed.

Currently, China and India have cleaner air than we do. Wildfire smoke got serious this weekend and Montana has some of the worst air quality on the entire planet right now when it comes to particulate matter. It's unhealthy in dozens of locations across the state.

The heat is unrelenting in Montana.

The fire season gets hotter and hotter.

All fires have expanded in the continuing heat wave.

Area fires are all growing larger.

Missoula’s summer wildfire smoke season has arrived early.

With all of the smoke in the air around Montana lately, you may have wondered about the health risks. Here's what the CDC and Montana DEQ say about it.

You may have noticed what looked like small snowflakes drifting down from the sky in western Montana on Monday, but they were actually bits of ash that traveled from California, Washington and Oregon fires all the way to the Missoula valley.

Fire officials were alerted to the fire in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest on Tuesday morning.