Several prescribed burns in U.S. Forest Service land could cause smoke to linger in the area for a while.

Two of the burns, one near Bailey and one near Red Feather Lakes, completed planned ignitions Monday, but Forest Service officials said smoke could still be seen from those fires for up to weeks later.

The Blue Ridge prescribed burn, in the Arapaho National Forest just south of Hot Sulphur Springs, started Monday with about 85 acres burned, officials said on Facebook, and has a few hundred more left to burn.

Dead trees caused by the bark beetle epidemic produced a lot of smoke, Mike Smith with the U.S. Forest Service said in a video posted on Facebook Monday.

Tuesday, firefighters hope to burn about 300 more acres, so more smoke will be seen from this fire.

Officials for the Pike-San Isabel National Forest on Facebook said firefighters burned a total of 449 acres in the Payne Gulch prescribed burn near Bailey over Sunday and Monday.

Crews will continue to patrol the edges and mop up, and some small pockets of fuel will continue to burn and smolder.

Smoke and some possible flames from this could be visible from U.S. 285 for days to weeks, officials said.

In the Roosevelt National Forest, the Magic Feather prescribed burn near Red Feather Lakes, burned a total of 455 acres over three days and finished new ignitions Monday.

Smoke will continue to be visible in the area.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment noted these fires in its state smoke outlook page but said public health impacts are unlikely.