Classify polygons according to contiguous overlaps

Question

Hello,

I have used ARCGIS PRO to generate buffer areas (circular polygons) around building centroids and now I want to classify the resulting polygons according to the number of contiguous overlaps with polygons that can be much further away. The Count Overlapping Features counts the number of overlaps of each single polygon with its immediate "neighbours” (e.g. 2 or 3) but does not take into account that some of these polygons are part of a longer “string” of overlaps (e.g. 10-15). Is there some way to specify these relationships with existing tools?

Thanks,

C.

DanPatterson · Answer

Do you have an image of your situation?

Count Overlapping Features (Analysis)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

shows the case where 3 polygons overlap, if this pattern were to continue in any direction, you could look at summarizing/tabulating the areas within the bounding geometry of all (eg concave hull, convex hull etc)