The invention relates to a power grid anticipated fault set automatic generating method and system. The method includes the following steps that first, an anticipated fault depth of an anticipated fault set and a tide transferring threshold value of a fault influence domain are set; second, a power grid is divided into various partition areas; third, N-1 anticipated fault analysis is performed on each partition area, each anticipated switching-off device and branches with tide transfer exceeding the tide transferring threshold value before and after switching off are added to the fault influence domain, N-1 fault influence domains are formed, all the N-1 fault influence domains are analyzed, the overlapped fault influence domains are combined, and N-2 anticipated fault sets are formed; fourth, according to the anticipated fault depth, the N-m fault influence domains are circularly calculated, and accordingly, a plurality of anticipated fault sets are generated; fifth, the multiple anticipated fault sets in all the partition areas are gathered, and multiple anticipated fault sets of a whole network are formed. The method and system not only are favorable for improving the analysis effect of anticipated faults but also effectively control the scale of the multiple fault sets, the calculating efficiency is high, and the using effect is good.