As of this afternoon, more than 30 fires were still burning in Oregon and the air is so thick in places you can barely see in front of you. Nat Geo’s Nina Strochlic, who drove across the state on Friday and again for seven hours along the Oregon coast Sunday, was struck by how quickly smoke enveloped the state.



“The skies were clear where I was and it was hard to fathom that the rest of the state couldn’t breathe,” Strochlic says. “And then suddenly the air was yellow and thick. I only got out of the car once but my clothes still reeked of smoke days later from those 10 minutes outside.” (Above, a man