Walton County, GA Swimming Pools & Spas: Fencing & Safety Requirements (2026)

Section 6-1-920 sets the standards for home swimming pools in every district where they are permitted. Subsection B requires the pool and its surrounding deck to be enclosed by a wall or fence at least four feet high, and the ordinance ties that duty to specific size and depth thresholds rather than every backyard pool: it applies to in-ground and above-ground pools that either hold water deeper than twenty-four inches or cover at least one hundred square feet of surface area, so a small wading pool below both thresholds falls outside the enclosure mandate.

The same section layers on siting standards that work alongside the fence rule: Subsection A keeps the pool itself at least fifteen feet from any property line, and Subsection C pushes the deck back to no closer than five feet from a property line, so the fence typically sits well inside the lot rather than along the boundary. Unlike Section 6-1-910, which governs community, club and multi-family pools and specifically requires a self-closing, self-latching gate, Section 6-1-920's home-pool text mandates the wall or fence height without spelling out a self-closing gate, though Walton County's adopted building code may impose that detail separately at permitting.

Because Section 6-1-920(D) also requires Walton County Health Department approval before a building permit issues for an in-ground pool, the fence and setback compliance is typically checked as part of that same permitting review, not as a separate inspection.