Abstarct: The hazards of coal mining are one of the limiting factors in mining design. One of the most important hazards associated with coal mining is coal spontaneous combustion. The process of coal spontaneous combustion should be carefully considered because of the direct impact on the safety and environmental contamination. Therefore, the subject of this research was tixtled "Presentation of a quantitative and qualitative model for evaluation of coal seam spontaneous combustion potential" to make the first progress in this field by making a coal spontaneous combustion evaluator system. In this thesis, the first step was to investigate the various literature reviews and then, using coal sampling from the mines, and carrying out precise experiments, the coal spontaneous combustion process and the effective parameters were investigated. In the next step, a new qualitative and quantitative model was presented. These models consist of all of the coal intrinsic characteristics to determine the coal seam spontaneous combustion potential. Using these new indexes, we can assess the relationship between the coal intrinsic characteristics and the results of coal spontaneous combustion. For this purpose, the qualitative model has been developed using a combination of fuzzy Delphi rock engineering systems method (FDRES) and decision making trial and evaluation laboratory method (DEMATEL). This model presents an index entixtled CSCSi (Coal Seam Combustion Spontaneously index) as a classification system with accuracy and ease of use that describes the coal seam spontaneous combustion potential in three safe, precautionary and unsafe classes. In order to develop a quantitative model using principal component analysis (PCA), the most important components and parameters were identified and baxsed on which a quantitative model was presented. To validate the models, the laboratory data related to the 13 seams of the central Alborz coal mines were used. It was concluded the proposed models are simple and efficient tools to evaluate the coal seam spontaneous combustion potential.