Prescott Valley, AZ Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

Section 13-07-075, enacted by Ordinance No. 2025-953 on 9/11/2025, lists the materials banned for fences in every residential zoning district: plastic tarps, fabric mesh, barbed wire, razor wire, tarpaulins, embedded glass shards, ultra barrier, wood pallets, plywood, pressboard, particle board, chipboard, Masonite, and electrified and other hazardous fencing. The prohibition covers these materials whether they are installed on existing permanent fences or structures, so a homeowner cannot add a strand of barbed wire or a tarp screen to a block wall or wooden fence.

Two exceptions are printed in the same section. In addition to the screening standards in § 13-11-050, fences and screening in commercial or industrial districts that enclose storage areas, transformers, antennas, or other high value or dangerous installation areas can have barbed wire or razor ribbon connected, so long as it is located more than six feet above grade. And where the keeping of livestock is permitted, barbed wire is also allowed. Livestock outside the AG zone is limited by § 13-07-100 to lots of one acre or larger.

Material rules sit alongside the height rules. Under § 13-07-090(D), fences on residential lots are limited to four feet in the front yard and six feet in side or rear yards, and § 13-07-120 caps anything in a sight visibility triangle at three feet. Pool enclosures under § 13-07-140(B)(4) that use wire mesh or chain link must have a maximum mesh size of one and three-quarters inches, measured horizontally. A fence built from an approved material still has to meet each of those separate standards.