Abstract: This article introduces a mine fire visualization simulation method based on cellular automata. On the basis of mine tunnel visualization, a tunnel fire combustion model for expressing cellular temperature and a tunnel fire smoke spread model for expressing cellular concentration were built by fire cell characterization. In these models the influence of fuel type and input density, ventilation and roadway slope on mine fire ignition and the effect of double diffusion, ventilation, buoyancy and throttling on fire smoke spread were taken into account, and a probability function was used for cellular automata modelling. Then according to the fire cellular combustion evolution rules and smoke cellular spreading evolution rules, the spatial changes of tunnel fire burning and harmful gas concentration were demonstrated through visualization means. Actual data from a mine proves the feasibility and effectiveness of tunnel fire simulation based on cellular automata.