Walton County, GA Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

5(B) governs fence materials countywide, on top of the height limits set in the same section. Any fence that extends into the required front yard on a lot smaller than one acre must be built of brick, stone, wood, wrought iron or split rail, which rules out chain link and similar wire fabric as a front-yard material for typical residential lots. Woven wire or metal fabric fencing, defined to include chain link, hog wire and barbed wire, cannot extend into a front yard at all unless the property is at least two acres and used for agricultural purposes, in which case the material restriction lifts for that agricultural use.

Electric and barbed wire fencing is prohibited across the county except on lots that meet or exceed the two-acre minimum required for raising and keeping livestock, or on industrially zoned property, so a residential lot under two acres cannot install either material anywhere on the property, not just the front yard. The ordinance separately bans a list of scavenged or unfinished materials as fencing regardless of yard or lot size: exposed concrete blocks, tires, scrap metal, sheet metal, plastic or fiberglass sheeting, vinyl siding or fabric, plywood, pallet material, junk, or other discarded items.

Posts must be anchored in concrete, and privacy fencing must face its finished side inward toward the fenced property, a design detail enforced alongside the material rules.