Wildfire smoke prompts air quality concerns in NYC and Tri-State | Live updates

Maps show how the smoke will impact air quality through Friday.

State DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton said they expect air quality to deteriorate throughout the day "as we continue to see impacts from wildfires."

"Throughout the day people are going to experience spikes in air quality that will be problematic, we are going to continue to see perhaps waves of poor air quality throughout the day," Lefton said. "It's going to start in western and central New York and make its way down to the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City, the entire state could and will likely see poor air quality today."

Lefton said the entire state will see visible smoke. That is not necessarily indicative of air quailty, because that might be happening at higher levels.

Mayor Mamdani posts that air quality has reached unhealthy levels

Just after 2 p.m., Chief Meteorologist Lee Goldberg said that the Air Quality Index has spiked to an unhealthy level.