Accurate fault location is the key to save the manpower and material resources, which has important significance for improving the reliability of power supply and reducing the loss of continuous power supply. Aiming at the current fault location technologies of transmission networks are relatively mature, and the exact fault location of distribution networks are still to be further studied, the fault location strategy for distribution network was proposed, which consisted of two steps: The fault section or fault branch was realized based on fault indicator, Secondly, the accurate fault location of the radial distribution network with the branch was realized by using the hybrid fault location method. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed fault location method was verified by MTATLAB simulation. The experimental results show that a high accuracy of fault location.