{"id":26494,"date":"2024-07-24T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T02:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wildfires-in-pacific-northwest-causing-hazy-skies-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:40:47","slug":"wildfires-in-pacific-northwest-causing-hazy-skies-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wildfires-in-pacific-northwest-causing-hazy-skies-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires in Pacific Northwest causing hazy skies in Southwest Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=defba6ed-e575-56e1-b3e9-86fc0635c8e6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1846\" height=\"971\" alt=\"Wildfires burning in the Pacific Northwest were causing hazy skies Wednesday in Southwest Colorado. (Courtesy of Durango Live Cam)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Wildfires burning in the Pacific Northwest were causing hazy skies Wednesday in Southwest Colorado. (Courtesy of Durango Live Cam)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The hazy skies that rolled into Durango earlier this week is coming from wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, according to the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>The haze enveloped much of the Western Slope, courtesy of a high-pressure system that carried smoke in from Oregon, Washington and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The air quality index remained under 100 as of Wednesday, which the state of Colorado classifies as \u201cgood\u201d to \u201cmoderate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service expects the smoke to dissipate by Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to statistics from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nifc.gov\/fire-information\/nfn\" id=\"link-9ce5938adf76b20f3f35e4dd2c5defa8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Interagency Fire Center<\/a>, the 3.6 million acres that have burned so far in 2024 is slightly over the 10-year average of 3.2 million acres for this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>burning in Washington, Oregon and Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,414],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-26494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79373,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494\/revisions\/79373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26494"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=26494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}