Knox County, TN Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

For a standard single-family lot, no fence is required. The Knox County Zoning Ordinance imposes fencing only in specific screening and buffering situations. Where off-street parking is approved as a use-on-review in a more restrictive zone, all sides except ingress and egress must be enclosed with an opaque ornamental fence, wall, or dense evergreen hedge between 5 and 6 feet high (Sec. 3.51.10.B). A mobile home park must be entirely enclosed at its boundaries by a solid wall, fence, or evergreen hedge at least 7 feet high, set back 25 feet from any public street. Salvage or wrecking storage requires an 8-to-12-foot opaque enclosure.