My eyes actually started to water when I went outside this morning.

It's nasty.

Can't say it smells as good as firewood, it's more a sort of thick, green-wood smoke look and smell around me.
Sort of like the way the highway ditch smells when I burn weeds once a summer

Very hazy and the thick smell of burning wood.

(In the Chicago area)

I also agree with everyone above who says it doesn't smell as nice as just a plain old campfire. There's a rot and a bad juju to it, now that y'all mention it.

Near the Canadian border. We are in the country.

Yesterday we woke up to a sky so orange I thought I was tripping.
Air quality was terrible.

This morning, the sky is back to “normal” color, but pale and hazy. The campfire smell is still here, but not as strong. My throat continues to feel scratchy, and I keep feeling the need to cough. I am hoping it blows thru soon. I have lung issues, and it’s a lovely temperature where I normally like to leave all the windows open so we can air out the musty smell of our old house. I’m inside, windows all closed, wearing a mask.

And we have been getting so much heat and humidity that we don’t usually get until August. It is not conducive to being outside, even on nice clean air days.

Thank you global warming deniers. Hope you are happy. And since you all ‘ALSO’ don’t believe in wearing masks….good luck.

It's my impression from wathing the smoke movement that Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan are getting a lot from that source

The AQI is 395 as of 11 am

smell wood burning. Not as bad as year yet.

Found this map on the u.s.a. today website.

https://data.usatoday.com/fires/

The u.s and Canada are on fire, and not in a good way!

Absolutely TERRIFYING!

OH and PA are complaining about the smoke. The pictures they are posting on Facebook are unbelievable.

A friend said it smells like burnt Taco Bell. Whatever it is, it’s nasty, it’s making the sky overcast and the air is foggy. It’s much worse than I remember from 2023.

the house. Now would be a good time to use those Covid masks if you absolutely have to go outside.

Maybe the icky smell others detect is from urban areas' pollution being mixed with the smoke?

I was so struck by the burning wood smell that it took me a little while to detect the other particulate matter.

We're just north of the Bronx / NYC.
Yes, it's rather icky.

can frequently smell, and taste, the smoke. I am thankful that I have no serious respiratory issues, just my throat and eyes burning. The Aspen Acres fire alone is over 100,000 acres, over 150 square miles. .an area roughly the size of Denver.

and not likely to improve any time soon.

Yesterday, we were in Oyster Bay, Long Island about an hour east of NYC.

The scent of a fire was moderate and the smoke colored the sky a light reddish-brown.

Quite creepy.

Smokey in central Pa. Like a restaurant in 1972,