rest of the states, especially places like montana, idaho and even oregon where they are not expected to see the rain that some of their counterparts in the southwest are. overall to date the u.s. has had about 36,000 total u.s. wildfires, total area burned 2.7 million acres. we are ahead of pace from where we were last year and 2020 was an awful year for wildfires. one of the specific fires, the large fires that we've been saying close attention to is the bootleg fire in oregon now burning over 400,000 acres. they were able to make a little bit of improvement in the containment earlier this week. the hope is we can keep those winds down to allow those firefighters to continue making good jumps in the containment. one thing to note, though, is how far the smoke from a lot of those wildfires actually spreads. take a look at this, chicago, st. louis, cincinnati dealing with code orange air quality alerts today because of the smoke that has been spreading. take a look at this, this was from last week. this is a typical day in new