Brevard County, FL Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

Section 62-2109 of the Brevard County Code, in Chapter 62 (Land Development Regulations), Article VI (Zoning Regulations), sets the fence and wall height rules for unincorporated Brevard County. Subsection (a) starts from the zoning classification of the lot: six feet residential, eight feet agricultural, commercial, industrial or tourist commercial, and ten feet in a commercial, industrial or tourist commercial classification next to a residential one, rising to 12 feet when a binding development plan is in place. Wooden fencing in a residential classification gets three extra inches (the code's own examples are 3'-6", 4'-0" and 6'-0") so builders can add linear cap features on top and airflow along the bottom, and decorative caps of up to eight inches can sit at the vertical posts. Where a residential lot abuts commercial or industrial land, the fence can rise to whatever height that abutting lot is allowed. The caps apply to every fence or solid wall wherever it stands on the property, unless a later subsection restricts it further.

Subsections (b) and (c) are those further restrictions. At a street intersection, no obstruction taller than three and one-half feet can stand in the sight triangle, and the list covers signs with less than eight feet between the bottom of the sign and the ground, fences, walls, hedges and other structures. The triangle is at least ten feet long along a local road or bike path and at least 30 feet long along a collector or arterial road. The county manager or a designee can waive part of the restriction when a smaller triangle still protects traffic, bicycle and pedestrian safety. In residential, commercial and tourist commercial classifications, a fence or wall inside the required front setback is limited to four feet, and the same four-foot limit covers the side street setback of a corner lot contiguous to a key lot less than 100 feet wide. Six-foot side street fencing, when allowed, cannot run toward the front lot line past the forward-most edge of the house, not counting snout garages, porches or other protruding features. Industrial and agricultural lots can reach eight feet inside those setbacks, but within 25 feet of a street intersection or of the driveway's meeting with the street, the part above four feet must be non-opaque.