The article is devoted to actual problem of for-est fires. Especially it concerns the forests of the Russian Federation, so they make up 22 % of all forests in the world. And the conse-quences of burning of forests can be even more catastrophic than now. The aim of the article is the analysis of the dependence of the number of fires caused by the density of the transport network and the consequences, which are ex-pressed in the burned forest land, which entails huge emission of harmful substances into the atmosphere and the death of the animal and vegetable world. Article brings some results of studying the dependence of the number fires, the number of the total area burned from the density of the transport network.
forest fund, forest fires, density of the transport network, area affected by fires, statistical analysis, correlation.
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