Kootenai County, ID Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

6 (Landscaping, Screening and Fencing), sets the county's baseline fence rules. 1106(C)(1) exempts any fence under eight feet from the title's standard front, side and rear yard setbacks, so a fence built to the maximum height can generally go right up to the property line without a separate setback review. Subsections A and B require a different kind of fence for commercial, light industrial and industrial development: refuse containers, and any equipment, materials or goods not stored inside a building, must sit behind a fence that is both a minimum of six feet (6') tall and 100 percent sight-obscuring, so nothing stored outdoors is visible from adjacent property or the public right-of-way.

Subsection C bans certain fencing material outright: tires, manufactured home parts, salvaged building materials, automobile parts, junk, and garbage cannot be used to build a fence anywhere the article applies. 5. 1403, nothing erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow may materially impede vision between two feet six inches (2'6") and ten feet (10') above street grade within the fifty-foot (50') triangle formed where two intersecting street lines meet. A solid eight-foot fence built inside that triangle is a violation even though it is within the general height cap.