Commercial Fencing in Northwest Arkansas

Usually. If the fence is part of a site plan or plan review, it is reviewed with the project. Standalone, the permit line is 7 feet in Fayetteville and Rogers and 8 feet in Farmington, and Rogers also requires a permit for any fence with poured concrete footings. Screening requirements come out of site plan review rather than the fence rules. We pull the permit and handle the submittal.

Not in Farmington, which expressly prohibits chain link screening for trash and refuse areas and requires masonry, wood, or materials that match the building. Fayetteville requires the enclosure to match the building with the opening hidden from the street, which chain link will not satisfy. We build enclosures in wood, composite and matching materials, with a secure gate and a proper slab.

It depends on the town and the zoning. In Fayetteville, barbed and razor wire cannot be visible from the street or from a house unless it is genuine agricultural use, and multifamily property cannot have it at all. Farmington bans new barbed wire on residential property and handles commercial sites case by case through the Building Official. We make that call before we quote it.

Industrial-zoned property in Rogers gets six feet in every yard, including the front. Fayetteville requires a screening fence to be at least six feet and requires a permit over seven. Farmington sets no maximum and permits at eight feet and above. Taller security runs are common on industrial sites; we design the posts and footings for the height.

Yes. You get a written scope of work with materials, heights, gate specs and code references, drawings for plan review when they are needed, a certificate of insurance on request, and a crew that schedules around the other trades on site.

It depends on material and permit timing. We give you a start window when we bid, order materials as soon as the deposit lands, and update the date when they arrive rather than guessing.

Yes. Every installation, residential or commercial, is backed by our Lifetime Workmanship Warranty. Materials carry the manufacturer's warranty.

All of Northwest Arkansas, including Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville, Bella Vista, Centerton, Farmington, Prairie Grove and Siloam Springs.

Outdoor storage and salvage yards must be fully surrounded by a solid fence of at least six feet. Trash and recycling containers must be enclosed with materials that match the building, with the opening hidden from the street. Landscaping used for screening has to fill in within two years or a fence is required. Cell tower compounds need a six-foot wood board fence with an anti-climb device, and impound yards need a six-foot wood board privacy fence on every side. Duplexes and apartments cannot have barbed wire, cannot put chain link in front of the building, and are capped at 42 inches out front. Full detail on our Fayetteville page.

The zoning rules apply to every fence, commercial or residential: three feet across the front, six feet in the side and rear yards. The buildings chapter sets no fence-specific permit, and the city inspects to the adopted International Residential Code. Downtown property falls under the Downtown District Form Based Code, amended most recently in 2026, which carries its own frontage and screening rules and is where plan review will send you. Full detail on our Springdale page.

Industrial-zoned property gets six feet in every yard rather than four out front. Screening requirements come out of site plan review with Community Development. Inside the Rogers Commercial Historic District downtown, fences and masonry walls need a Certificate of Appropriateness before they go up. Building permits are required over seven feet or with concrete footings. Full detail on our Rogers page.

In the town centre districts, frontage fencing is not allowed except in narrow cases: outdoor dining areas may be fenced to four feet with the entrances kept accessible, and forecourts may be enclosed up to eight feet as long as at least a quarter of the fence above four feet is transparent and the gates are at least half transparent. Privacy and security fences in those districts may reach eight feet. Barbed wire and electrified fences are not allowed within forty feet of a lot line anywhere in the city. Full detail on our Bentonville page.

Nonresidential districts may run up to eight feet in the front yard. Every fence in the city needs a permit, and the permit is void if work does not start within 180 days. The POA Architectural Control Committee is a separate approval: a city permit does not clear you with the ACC, and the ACC cannot waive a city rule. Full detail on our Bella Vista page.

Any dumpster or refuse area must be screened completely from view with a masonry enclosure and an opaque access gate, sized so the truck does not damage it and set at least five feet from the fascia of any adjacent structure. Multifamily developments need a landscaped buffer at least ten feet wide along all property lines, including a six-foot opaque screen wherever they abut lower-density residential. Light and heavy industrial districts need a continuous visual buffer of landscaping, berms, fencing or walls at least ten feet in from the lot lines. Walls are limited to five feet on side and rear lines and three feet in front. Full detail on our Centerton page.

Dumpster and trash enclosures must be at least five feet high, built of masonry, materials matching the building, or wood, with a secure access gate, on a reinforced concrete slab at least six inches thick. Chain link screening is expressly prohibited. Where a development backs onto residential property, the screening barrier is a wall or wood privacy fence of at least six feet with landscaping planted in front of it. Barbed wire on commercial sites is a call to the Building Official at 479-267-3865. Full detail on our Farmington page.

A permit is required before any fence is built or replaced, and a plot plan is part of the application, which we produce. Barbed wire is prohibited in every residential zone other than A-1 Agricultural; where it is allowed, it cannot sit within five feet of a public sidewalk, or within four feet of a street or alley right-of-way where there is no sidewalk. Full detail on our Prairie Grove page.

Commercial districts C-1A, G-I, C-1 and C-2 allow eight feet. Industrial districts I-1 and I-2 allow twelve feet, the tallest allowance we have found in any city in the area. A fence permit is required before any fence or dividing wall is erected, placed or replaced. Full detail on our Siloam Springs page.