The invention discloses a method for monitoring grinding wheel wear and grinding burn by using a grinding force, and belongs to the technical field of monitor and control of machining processes. The method comprises the following steps of acquiring discrete-time series of a grinding force signal in real time, extracting important characteristic parameters, such as kurtosis, waveform index, pulse index, amplitude-frequency spectrum kurtosis, amplitude-frequency spectrum pulse index, and amplitude-frequency spectrum cumulative probability, of the grinding force signal through time-domain or frequency-domain analysis, identifying different wear degrees of a grinding wheel, and overhauling the blunt grinding wheel in time; during a steady-state grinding stage, extracting an average amplitude of a tangential grinding force or a frequency spectrum centroid of a power spectrum in real time, and controlling the grinding burn. According to the method provided by the invention, the grinding force online monitoring and real-time signal processing are combined, so that the intelligent monitoring and controlling on grinding wheel-workpiece grinding contact status, grinding wheel wear condition, grinding burn and the like in a whole grinding processing process can be realized; the method for monitoring the grinding wheel wear and grinding burn by using the grinding force has various advantages that the antijamming capability is high, the operation is simple, the programming realization is convenient, the intellectualization is realized and the like.