Alabama's Dillon's Rule bars counties from zoning, so unincorporated Mobile County sets no fence-height limit, and no state statute caps residential fence height. Height rules exist only inside cities like Mobile, Prichard, Saraland, and Citronelle.
Mobile County cannot enact zoning for its unincorporated areas, so no county rule dictates how tall a fence may stand, and Alabama has no statewide height cap for residential fences. On rural and coastal land outside city limits, a homeowner may build a fence at whatever height the property and any recorded deed restrictions allow. Binding limits appear only after you cross into an incorporated city. Mobile, Prichard, Saraland, and Citronelle each set their own residential fence heights through municipal zoning, commonly six feet in rear and side yards and lower in front. Recorded HOA covenants in coastal subdivisions can impose their own caps, and those bind every lot by contract.
Outside city limits there is no height violation to cite; the county issues no fence penalties. Inside a city, exceeding the municipal zoning height draws a code-enforcement order. HOA covenant breaches are settled in civil court.
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