Abstract: Meteorological information volunteers play an important role in the rural natural disasters’ prevention and mitigation, and can share the responsibility of protecting life and property with the government. This paper evaluated six roles of meteorological information volunteers to play in rural preventing and mitigating of natural disasters, which included disseminating weather disaster warning information, finding disaster impact, collecting local meteorological need, organizing hedging, popularizing the meteorological knowledge and disaster prevention and mitigation consciousness. The survey showed that warning dissemination took the first place, and hedging organization and knowledge popularization ranked the second. However, the volunteers’capability of preventing disaster was poor. Therefore, it is necessary to make the volunteer group stable, to cultivate volunteers’prevention disaster consciousness and to improve volunteers’ disaster prevention capability by multi-government department cooperation. Meanwhile, it is also necessary to set up the certification system of the services of the meteorological information volunteers to motivate their initiatives. These measures could improve the ability of natural disaster prevention and mitigation in rural areas.