If you’re in Seattle, don’t let the eerie, orange lighting unsettle you.

The air quality remains moderate in much of the Greater Seattle area, which is nothing to worry about, said National Weather Service meteorologist Harrison Rademacher.

The wildfire smoke is aloft thousands of feet above the ground, so you’d have to be in a commercial airliner to be in the midst of it.

A few fires are contributing to the haze across the state, NWS meteorologists said:

The nearly 10,000-acre Bear Gulch fire in Olympic National Forest.

The 1,300-acre Perry fire near Ross Lake in Whatcom County.

The more than 2,700-acre Wildcat fire near Mount Rainier.

The 4,000-acre Lower Sugarloaf fire north of Wenatchee.

The 6,000-acre Rattlesnake fire in Ferry County.

A cluster of fires in and around Stevens

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