The invention discloses a system and a method for oil field united station fire disaster pre-warning system based on video images. The system comprises a fire disaster pre-warning management computer and a fire disaster pre-warning controller connected with the fire disaster pre-warning management computer; the input end of the fire disaster pre-warning management computer is connected with a plurality of image type fire disaster detectors arranged in the monitored oil field united station. The method comprises the following steps: 1, acquiring and transmitting video images, 2, pre-processing the video images, 3, extracting characteristics, 4, acquiring a training sample, 5, constructing BP neural network model, 6, training BP neural network model, and 7, recognizing fire disaster and pre-warning. The system and the method have reasonable design, good real-time property, high sensitivity, high accuracy, high effectiveness and reliability, strong anti-jamming capability, strong practicability, good use effect, and high popularization and application values.