Fence Regulations in Utah (2026)

Eagle Mountain caps residential front yard fences at four feet, allows wing fencing and side/rear fencing up to six…

Layton residential fences are capped at 3 feet solid (4 feet open) in front yards, 8 feet in side and rear yards, and 6…

Lehi caps fences, walls and hedges at six feet citywide, drops that to 36 inches within 15 feet of a front property…

Orem caps any fence, wall, hedge or enclosing structure at 36 inches above finished grade within a front setback or…

Provo caps sight-obscuring front-yard fences at 3 feet (6 feet if at least half open), side yards at 7 feet, and lets…

Salt Lake City caps front-yard fences at 4 feet and side/rear fences at 6 feet in residential zones, and requires a…

In Salt Lake County's Foothills and Canyons Overlay Zone, no fence taller than forty-two inches may be constructed or…

Sandy caps residential side and rear fences at six feet and front-yard fences at three feet solid or four feet open…

South Jordan caps rear and side yard fences at 6 feet, while front yard fences top out at 4 feet for open styles or 3…

St. George caps side and rear fences at 6'4", front-yard fences at 4', and bars sight-blocking fences over 3' in the…

In unincorporated Utah County, a sight-obscuring fence, wall, hedge or berm is capped at 3 feet between the street and…

Washington County caps residential fence height at six feet along side and rear property lines and three feet in any…

Weber County caps fences, walls and hedges at four feet anywhere on a lot, but allows six feet on an interior lot…

West Jordan caps residential fences at four feet in a sight-obscuring front yard location, six feet once behind the…

West Valley City caps side and rear yard fences at six feet, but front-yard fences over four feet must sit 20 feet back…

Eagle Mountain requires a fence permit, or authorization through city site plan approval, before installing any fence…

Layton requires a building permit and engineering specifications for any fence or wall over seven feet tall. Fences at…

A fence up to six feet needs no special review in Lehi, but going higher requires approval. A fence between six and…

Orem requires a written fence permit for new fences and a building permit for masonry or concrete fences, pools and…

Provo does not require a building permit for structural fences 7 feet or under. Any structural fence over 7 feet needs…

Salt Lake City requires a building permit before building almost any fence, with a fee tied to construction cost or…

Inside Salt Lake County's Foothills and Canyons Overlay Zone, no fence may be constructed or installed unless it is…

South Jordan requires a City permit before building any collector-street fence or any fence over six feet tall; a…

Building permits are required for fences in Spanish Fork. Applications are submitted through the Community Development…

St. George requires a permit before building a fence or retaining wall in a front setback, unless the fence already…

In unincorporated Utah County, any fence taller than six feet above natural grade requires a Utah County building…

In unincorporated Washington County, a fence built to the height and setback limits in County Code chapter 10-15B goes…

Weber County's general fence rules let owners build four- and six-foot fences under Section 108-7-3 without a separate…

Under Utah Code Section 4-26-103, a qualifying grazing or agricultural landowner can require an adjoining qualified…

Washington County puts fencing duty on the landowner, not a shared-cost neighbor rule: section 9-4-2 requires owners of…

Layton puts the duty to keep a fence structurally sound, plumb and graffiti-free on the property owners abutting it…

Once Lehi accepts a required agricultural buffer fence a year after it goes in, the City steps out of the picture…

Eagle Mountain bars retaining walls over or adjacent to city utilities and inside public utility easements unless the…

Layton requires a building permit for any retaining wall four feet or taller, measured from the bottom of the…

Lehi requires a building permit and a site-specific engineered design for any retaining wall that holds back 4 feet or…

In Provo's Critical Hillside Overlay Zone, terraced retaining walls are limited to 3 walls of up to 8 feet each, spaced…

In Salt Lake City's Foothills Protection and FR-1/FR-2/FR-3 districts, retaining walls cap at 4 feet above established…

Retaining walls in unincorporated Salt Lake County's Foothills and Canyons Overlay Zone are capped at eight feet for a…

A property-line retaining wall in Sandy cannot exceed five feet under City Code 21-28-8. Taller cuts or fills must be…

South Jordan requires a building permit and licensed engineer's design for most retaining walls, caps a single wall at…

St. George caps front-yard retaining walls at 4 feet in residential zones and requires a city permit and engineering…

Utah County's RA-5 zoning standards bar cutting or filling a building site, street, or driveway steeper than the soil's…

Washington County requires a building and/or excavation permit from the Community Development Department before…

Weber County lets a fence sit on top of a cut-slope retaining wall at whatever height the zone would otherwise allow…

West Jordan limits retaining walls built to reduce steep manmade slopes to six feet in height measured from finished…

West Valley City requires a building permit and City Engineer and Building Official plan approval for any retaining…

Layton prohibits razor wire, electrically charged fencing, and barbed wire on residential fences citywide. Barbed wire…

Barbed wire is allowed in Lehi only on agricultural land in the A-5, A-1 and RA-1 zones and for security purposes in…

Provo City Code 9.14.020 makes it unlawful to erect or maintain a barbed wire fence anywhere in the city, with narrow…

Salt Lake City zoning bans barbed wire, razor wire, and electric security fences on residential property, limiting them…

Sandy bans barbed wire and similar intrusion-deterrent fencing on residential and vacant lots unless the Director…

Washington County bans barbed wire and razor ribbon fencing in every zone except agricultural zones or properties…

West Jordan declares barbed wire, razor wire, and concertina wire fencing a nuisance in residential zones along or…

West Valley City limits residential fences to vinyl, masonry, wrought iron, wood, hedges, and chain-link, and expressly…

Eagle Mountain bans chain-link, razor wire and electric fencing on residential perimeters, but allows barbed wire or…

Orem requires a building permit for any masonry or concrete fence, and its commercial standards require sight-obscuring…

In Salt Lake County's Foothills and Canyons Overlay Zone (FCOZ), fences that screen patios, service areas and other…

South Jordan limits front-yard fencing in residential zones to nonobscuring wrought iron or vinyl picket up to four…

St. George City Code requires decorative, mostly open fencing like picket or wrought iron within the front ten feet of…