【Purpose/significance】The emergency retrieval model based on hierarchical rough set can meet the needs of different levels of retrieval requirements for people, improve the scientificity and accuracy of emergency case retrieval, and play an important role in emergency response decision-making.【Method/process】Firstly, according to the types of emergencies, the attributes of emergencies are extracted and represented reasonably; Secondly, we analyze the attributes of emergencies, construct the hierarchical tree of emergency attribute concept, and establish the spatial structure relationship of attribute value; Finally, the hierarchical rough set technology is used to construct the multi granularity retrieval model for emergencies.【Result/conclusion】The emergency retrieval model focuses on the abstraction and fuzziness of user queries,and realizes the retrieval requirements of different granularity. It provides information support for making emergency plans and quick response of emergencies.