The weather agency says the affected region includes the communities of Mayo and Carmacks, located between Whitehorse and Dawson.
Officials are warning residents that the fine particles in the air will put people with existing conditions, seniors, pregnant people and children at especially high risk. The territory says there are 78 active fires in Yukon, and all but two of those blazes are in the Dawson and Mayo fire districts.
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