Abstract: The land use data of 1986, 1995 and 2005, and 2015’s Landsat OLI data in the Northwest Yunnan region were used to analyze changes in land-use type of the study area in the recent 30 years through dynamics in the land-use types, fractal theory, and landscape pattern indexes. The results showed that the woodland always dominated the study area from 1986 to 2015, whose percentages was more than 64% of total study area, and the urban land was always increasing though its area was less than 1%, the dynamic indexes of other land-use types were mostly increasing, and the changes of urban-land area was fastest; the major area-transformation among land-use types was in woodland, grassland and cropland, the number of transformation reached its maximum in the decade of 2005−2015; The fractal feature of land types for the study area was obvious, the woodland, grassland, urban-land and unutilized-land tended to relative stabilization, while cropland, and water was tended to active. The fragmentation of overall land landscape was increased, and each land-use type was tended to be aggregated.