Abstract: Cracking the soil and water loss effects of mining-induced surface fissures in the coal mining area of the middle reaches of the Yellow River is of great significance for ecological environment protection and high-quality development in the coal mining region of northern Shaanxi. Taking the soil around the mining-induced ground fissures with widths of 0−10, 10−20, 20−30 cm ( within 80 cm in horizontal distance and shallower than 20 cm in vertical depth ) in the typical mining-induced ground fissure development area in the north wing of Ningtiaota mine field in northern Shaanxi as the research object, the soil infiltration rate, cumulative infiltration, saturated hydraulic conductivity ( K_s ), organic matter, mechanical composition and > 0.25 mm water-stable aggregates were measured by constant head method and instrument analysis method, respectively. The influence of mining-induced ground fissures on soil infiltration characteristics was revealed. Based on the RUSLE2 model calculation, the soil erosion effect on the small spatial scale of mining-induced ground fissures considering infiltration characteristics is clarified. The results showed that:① The infiltration rate of soil around the mining-induced fissures exhibits a dynamic variation process over time, characterized by three stages: transient ( 0−3 min ), gradual ( 3−60 min ), and stable ( 60−110 min ). ②The effect of mining-induced ground fissure development on soil Ks is the most significant, with an average increase of 60.63 %. This effect increases with the increase of mining-induced ground fissure width and the decrease of horizontal distance from ground fissure. ③ Soil cumulative infiltration and Ks were significantly positively correlated with very fine sand ( p < 0.01 ), but significantly negatively correlated with clay and organic matter ( p < 0.01 ), and significantly negatively correlated with > 0.25 mm water-stable aggregates ( p < 0.05 ). ④The variation range of erodibility K-value calculated by considering infiltration characteristics is 1.12−2.13 times larger than that without considering infiltration characteristics. Based on the exponential function, the prediction model of the influence range of mining-induced ground fissures with different widths on the infiltration rate and erodibility K-value of the surrounding soil was constructed. It was found that when the horizontal distance from the mining-induced ground fissures exceeded 226 cm and 157 cm, respectively, the effect of mining-induced ground fissures on increasing the infiltration rate and erodibility of the surrounding soil basically disappeared. It can be used as a precise prevention and control target area for soil erosion in the loess mining-induced ground fissure development area in the middle reaches of the Yellow River.