Directing at the non-linear dynamic characteristics of water inrush from coal seam floor and by the analysis of the shortages of current forecast methods for water inrush from coal seam floor,a new forecast method was raised based on wavelet neural network(WNN)that was a model combining wavelet function with artificiaI neural network.Firstly basic principle of WNN was described.then a forecast model for water inrush from coal seam floor based on WNN was established and analyzed,finally an example of forecasting the quantity of water inrush from coal floor was illustrated to verify the feasibility and superiority of this method.Conclusions show that the forecast result based on WNN is more precise and that using WNN model to forecast the quantity of water inrush from coal seam floor is feasible and practical.