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

Section 72-282(5) of the county's supplementary zoning regulations flatly prohibits barbwire and electric fences in the R-1 through R-9 single- and two-family residential classifications, the OCV, OMV, OTC and OUR office and use districts, the SWC and SWR classifications, and the MH-1, MH-2, MH-5, MH-6 and MH-7 mobile-home classifications. Public utility uses and structures are the sole exception, reflecting the fact that utility substations and similar infrastructure legitimately need barbwire or electrified perimeter security that a residential yard does not. The prohibition sits inside the same section that sets fence heights and materials (section 72-282), so a homeowner reviewing height limits for a side or rear yard is reviewing the identical section that bans these two materials outright; there is no separate barbwire ordinance to search for.

The subsection also prohibits erecting any wall, of any material, inside a platted easement anywhere in the unincorporated county, a rule that applies regardless of zoning classification and is not limited to the barbwire/electric carve-out. Because the ban is written by classification rather than by lot type, it reaches virtually every subdivision lot in unincorporated Volusia; residents in the excluded classifications (agricultural, conservation and public-use zones, which section 72-282(4) exempts from this section entirely) are the main properties where barbwire fencing legitimately shows up, typically for livestock containment.