Flagler County, FL Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

1, is a countywide default ban with a narrow carve-out. No barbed wire or electrically charged fence may be erected in any district, full stop, except in the R-1 rural residential district and the MH-1 rural mobile home district, and even there the exception only covers fences used to contain animals or livestock. A homeowner in R-1b, R-1c, R-1d, R-2 or any commercial or industrial district cannot install barbed wire or an electric fence for general security purposes; the exemption is tied specifically to livestock containment in the two named rural districts.

1: those fences may incorporate an 18-inch barbed wire or similar extension above the standard six-foot height limit, which is a security add-on rather than a general permission to use barbed wire as the primary fencing material. 2: barbed wire can never be placed so that it projects outward over a sidewalk, street or other public way, or over the property of an adjacent owner, protecting pedestrians and neighboring parcels from wire encroaching past the property line. Read together, the code treats barbed wire and electric fencing as presumptively prohibited everywhere in unincorporated Flagler County, with the only permissive uses being rural livestock containment in R-1 and MH-1, and a limited commercial or industrial security extension that cannot overhang adjoining property or public rights-of-way. This provision governs unincorporated territory only; Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Beverly Beach and Marineland set their own fence material standards under separate codes.