Abstract: Nowadays, the development of the energy industry is playing an increasingly important role absolutely. However, followed by the development of energy industry, there are the various types of safety incidents. Prevention and control of mine fire is still a major problem, which is largely restricting the normal production and economic benefits of the mine, affecting the health of the staff, even their life safety. To solve these problems, relevant scholars are committed to mine fire research, and receive a lot of gratifying results. Based on a large number of documents, this paper summarizes the current situation of mine fire disaster prevention and control research, and propose some suggestions for some existing problems. At last, taking into account the above, it makes a prospect of mine fire prevention and control research.