Harrison County, MS Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

01), which apply to all fences built in the unincorporated area outside Gulfport, Biloxi, Long Beach, Pass Christian and D'Iberville. The rule reads as an outright material ban rather than a permit or setback condition: electrified fencing, barbed wire, razor wire and stockade fencing are 'hereby prohibited in all zoning districts,' with a single carve-out for fencing used in conjunction with an agricultural or industrial use. A rural lot zoned agricultural can still fence livestock with barbed wire, but the same fence around a house in a standard residential subdivision cannot.

01's fence standards, four-foot privacy fence limits in front yards, an eight-foot general maximum, and setback rules for taller street-facing fences, so a property owner replacing an old stockade or barbed-wire fence has to bring the whole installation into compliance with those companion provisions, not just swap materials. 01 as part of routine zoning enforcement, and a fence built with a prohibited material is treated as any other zoning violation under Article XIV.