Análisis espacial de la ocurrencia de incendios forestales en el estado de Durango

an exploratory analysis was carried out of the spatial distribution pattern of forest fires for the state of durango, having as a hypothesis that the fires have a nonrandom spatial pattern. weekly fire reports from conafor (national forestry commission) for a five-year period were analyzed using moran's coefficient. a graphical analysis was developed with the scatterplot diagram and local indicator of spatial association. the results show a high spatial correlation between areas with fire history, where moran's statistic captures 98.3% of the global structure of longitudinal and altitudinal association.