WHO WE ARE
KNOW THE RULES BEFORE YOU BUILD
Kismet Fence is a locally owned Licensed Contractor, No. 0446811126, working across Northwest Arkansas. We are based in Farmington rather than Rogers, and we would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise.
What we bring to a Rogers job is that we actually read the rules. Rogers is the strictest town in the area on fence height, it uses a zoning system most homeowners have never heard of, and the limit that catches people is not the one they expect. We work all of that out before we quote, not after the posts are in.
Our philosophy: quality over volume. The parts of a fence you cannot see are the parts that fail first, so those are the parts we spend money on.
It’s why we dig our post holes deeper.
It’s why metal frames and metal posts are standard on every wood gate we build, so they never sag.
It’s why our workmanship warranty runs for the lifetime of the fence.
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Why We're Different
The Difference You Can See. The Quality & Care You Can Trust.
Local, Experienced & Trusted
We’re a local team that takes pride in our reputation and stands behind our work.
Professional & Licensed General Contractor
We're experienced, licensed general contractors who follow proper building standards, safety practices, and local codes.
Financing Options
We offer convenient financing plans to make high-quality fencing affordable without compromising on materials or workmanship.
Lifetime Workmanship Warranty
We stand behind our work with a reliable warranty that protects your investment and gives you confidence long after installation is complete.
Permits Made Easy
We take care of all required permits so your project stays compliant and on schedule.
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Pick a time and one of our estimators comes out, measures, and works through heights, districts and anything the city will want to see. No pressure and no charge.
CUSTOM WOOD & PRIVACY FENCES
Six feet is the number for most Rogers back yards, and that is what the city allows in side and rear yards across nearly every district.
Styles: Side-by-side, board-on-board, shadowbox and horizontal, in premium cedar or pressure-treated pine. Dog-ear pickets come standard.
Built to last: Metal frames and metal posts on every gate, with PostMaster steel posts available where you want the frame to outlive the boards.
A Rogers reason to go solid: if you keep backyard hens, the city only accepts a fenced yard as containment when the fence is solid, non-permeable material. A wood privacy fence qualifies. Spaced pickets and chain link do not.
ORNAMENTAL STEEL & ALUMINUM
Metal is the answer to the hardest constraint in Rogers: the front yard is capped at four feet.
Four feet of solid wood out front looks like a barricade. Four feet of powder-coated aluminum looks intentional, keeps the sight lines the city is protecting, and still defines the yard.
Styles: Flat top, extended picket, puppy pickets to keep small dogs in, and commercial-grade steel.
Applications: Front yards under the four-foot rule, corner lots where both street sides are held to four feet, pool enclosures, and anywhere an HOA wants something open rather than solid.
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RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL CHAIN LINK FENCES
The most cost-effective way to enclose a back yard, a dog run or a jobsite.
Residential: Galvanized steel or black vinyl-coated mesh. The black reads almost invisible against a treeline, which is why most back yards choose it.
Commercial & Industrial: Heavy-duty mesh with security options, privacy slats and proper tension. Industrial-zoned property in Rogers gets six feet in every yard, not four out front.
Where it will not work here: containing backyard hens. Rogers requires solid material for that. Chain link is fine for dogs, and Rogers sets no enclosure size minimum at all, but it will not satisfy the poultry rule.
VINYL & COMPOSITE
The lowest-maintenance fence we build. No staining, no sealing, no rot, no gray fade after three summers.
Vinyl: Solid privacy panels in white and tan, with heavier wall thickness than the big-box panels.
Composite: Trex and similar systems, giving you a modern horizontal board look without the annual upkeep.
Two Rogers notes: vinyl and composite are solid non-permeable materials, so they satisfy the poultry containment rule. And because they are usually built at six feet, they belong in side and rear yards rather than out front.
FARM & RANCH FENCES
Rogers is a city of seventy thousand, but there is still acreage on the edges and in the agricultural zones.
Wire & Field Fence: High-tensile woven wire, no-barb horse fencing and traditional field fence.
Worth knowing about A-1: Rogers allows poultry flocks of any size in A-1 zones, so long as they are confined. Outside A-1 you are limited to four hens. If you have agricultural-zoned land inside the city, the rules are genuinely different from your neighbours’.
Also available: welded steel pipe for permanent pens, and hog and cattle panels with wood framing.
GATE AUTOMATION
A gate is the part of the fence you touch every day, so it is the part worth doing properly.
Gate Types: Walk gates for the four-foot front yard, plus estate, cantilever and sliding gates built to your driveway width.
Power & Tech: Solar or hard-wired openers with keypad, remote and smartphone control, plus wired or wireless audio and video integration.
The Rogers constraint: a driveway gate sits in your exterior yard, which is the four-foot zone. That shapes what is possible out front, and it is worth designing around before you fall in love with a rendering.
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From design to installation, we make fencing simple. Tell us what you are trying to solve, whether that is privacy, a dog, hens, a pool or a driveway, and we will tell you what it takes to do it right in Rogers.
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Rogers Fence Rules Code & Permit Guide
Plain English answers about fences in Rogers, built from the city’s Unified Development Code and its own Building Inspection guidance. Rogers is stricter than the towns around it, and the rule that catches people is not the one they expect.
Rogers Has A Real Height Limit
Most towns nearby set no maximum at all. Rogers does, and it is lower than people expect.
How tall can my fence be in Rogers?
Four feet in the front yard. Six feet in the side and rear. That is the rule across nearly every residential district in the city.
Is that different from the towns nearby?
Completely. Fayetteville sets no citywide maximum height for a residential fence. Farmington sets none either. Rogers caps your front yard at four feet.
Three neighbouring towns, three different answers. If you moved here from one of them, what you learned there does not apply.
Where does that number come from?
Section 4.5.10 of the Rogers Unified Development Code, amended in July 2025. It reads two numbers off a table: the first applies to exterior yards, the second to interior yards.
The city's own Building Inspection guidance says the same thing in plainer words, that front yard fences should be limited to four feet to avoid blocking line of sight.
Are there districts where it is different?
Two.
- The most rural district allows eight feet in interior yards rather than six
- Industrial zoned property gets six feet everywhere, including the front
Everything in between, which is nearly all of residential Rogers, is four and six.
Which Zoning District Am I In?
Rogers does not use R-1 and R-2 like its neighbours, which makes the height table hard to use until you know where you sit.
Rogers uses T2, T3, T4 zoning. What is that?
Rogers uses a form based code built on transects rather than the usual labels. Districts run from T2 at the rural edge through T6.3 in the urban core, plus a highway commercial district and two industrial ones.
It describes the character of a place rather than only its use.
How do I find mine?
The city's GIS map. Search your property address, open the Layers panel, and turn on Zoning. It takes about a minute.
Or just ask us. We look it up before we quote.
Does my district change my fence height?
Only at the extremes. Most Rogers neighbourhoods sit in T3.1, T3.2 or T4.1, and all of those are four feet front, six feet rear.
It matters if you are on agricultural edge land or industrial property.
The Corner Lot Trap
The single most expensive misunderstanding available in Rogers, and it catches people every year.
I am on a corner. Does the four foot rule apply to both streets?
Yes. And almost nobody expects it.
Why does it work that way?
Because the code does not talk about front and back. It talks about exterior and interior yards.
An exterior yard is any part of your lot between the building line and a street facing property line. On a corner lot you have two of those.
What does that mean in practice?
Your neighbour mid block gets six feet along the side of their house. You, on the corner, get four along the street side. Same fence, same neighbourhood, different limit.
We check this before quoting, because it changes the design rather than just the price.
Permits
Good news mostly, plus one clause that reads scarier than it is.
Do I need a permit for a fence in Rogers?
For a standard residential fence, no. Rogers does not require fence permits as such.
When is a building permit required?
Two situations: if the fence is over seven feet tall, and if it has concrete footings. Retaining walls over four feet also need one.
My posts are set in concrete. Is that a concrete footing?
No, and this trips people up.
A footing is a poured structural base, the kind that goes under a masonry wall or a brick or stone column. Setting a wood or steel post into a concrete collar is not a footing.
A standard wood or metal fence with posts set in concrete does not need a permit on that basis.
What does a permit cost?
Not much. Rogers charges on construction valuation, which works out to roughly twenty five dollars for a typical residential fence.
What if I just build it and sort it out later?
Fees are tripled where work that needs a permit starts before the permit is obtained, and paying the tripled fee does not get you out of complying anyway.
That is a bad trade against a twenty five dollar permit.
Who do I call?
Rogers Building Inspection, in the Risk Reduction Division, at 479-621-1100, at 113 N 4th Street. There is also an online permitting portal.
We handle permitting on our jobs.
Hydrants, Easements And Property Lines
Three practical things that decide where the fence can actually go.
Is there anything I cannot build near?
Fire hydrants. No fencing within a three foot radius.
Easy to miss when a hydrant sits close to a property line.
What if my fence line crosses a utility or drainage easement?
Talk to Community Development before you build. The city asks for that specifically.
An easement does not always stop you, but it changes what you should build. A panel that can come out beats a wall that has to come down.
Will the city show me where my property line is?
No. Rogers states plainly that it does not locate property lines and that you need a surveyor.
Worth knowing before you assume the fence already there is on the line.
What if I am outside the city limits?
Then Rogers has no jurisdiction and none of this applies to you. Benton County Risk Reduction handles permits and inspections at 479-271-1003.
Plenty of addresses with a Rogers mailing address sit outside the city.
Dogs
Rogers is more relaxed here than its neighbours, which surprises people moving in.
What does Rogers require for containing a dog?
An adequate fence, an enclosure, or inside a house, garage or other building. Or a chain or leash attached to the collar and secured to a substantial stationary object.
So tethering is allowed here?
Yes, and it is worth flagging because the neighbouring towns differ. Farmington bans chaining a dog to a fixed point on a permanent basis outright. Rogers permits it.
If you moved between the two, the rules changed underneath you.
Is there a minimum size for a dog enclosure?
Rogers sets none. Farmington sets minimum square footage scaled to the size of the dog. Rogers leaves it at adequate.
What actually works for a dog?
Depends on the dog rather than the code.
- Diggers need the bottom addressed: a buried apron, a concrete mow strip, or panels set tight to grade
- Jumpers need height, which in Rogers means the back yard, since the front is capped at four feet
Backyard Chickens
Rogers allows them, with a permit and one fencing requirement that rules out the cheapest option.
Can I keep chickens in Rogers?
Yes, with limits. Outside agricultural zones you may keep up to four hens per single family home. No roosters. None at all at duplexes or in multifamily complexes.
Do I need a permit for them?
Yes, a fowl permit from Rogers Animal Services, currently five dollars. Call 479-621-1197.
Does my fence have to be anything in particular?
This is the part people miss. A fenced yard only counts as a secure enclosure if the fence is built from solid, non permeable material: solid wood, metal or plastic.
Chain link does not qualify. Neither do spaced pickets.
So what should I build?
A solid wood privacy fence, vinyl, or composite.
If you already have chain link and you are adding hens, you need either a proper coop or a different fence.
What if I have agricultural zoned land?
Different rules. Rogers allows poultry flocks of any size in A-1 zones as long as they are confined.
Shared Fences And Neighbours
The question we get asked most often, and the city's answer is shorter than people hope.
My neighbour will not fix their half of the fence. Will the city make them?
No. Rogers states this directly: a shared fence dispute is a civil matter between property owners, not a violation of city code. The city will not intervene.
So what are my options?
Practically, either agree with them and split the cost, or build your own fence inside your own property line. We do both regularly.
If you go the second route, get the line surveyed first. Building on what you assume is the boundary is how these disputes start.
Downtown And The Commercial Historic District
Narrower than most people assume, but strict where it applies.
Is there a historic district in Rogers?
One. The Rogers Commercial Historic District, downtown, running around West Poplar and South Second near the Rogers Historical Museum.
What does that mean for a fence?
Inside that district you cannot erect or alter masonry walls, fences, light fixtures, steps or paving without a Certificate of Appropriateness covering the exterior architectural features.
Does that cover my neighbourhood?
Almost certainly not. This is the commercial historic district downtown, not a blanket rule over older residential streets.
If you own commercial property down there it matters a great deal. If you live in an older house elsewhere in Rogers, it does not apply.
Businesses And Commercial Work
What changes when the property is not a house.
What changes for commercial property?
Industrial zoned land gets six feet in every yard rather than four out front. Downtown commercial property may need a Certificate of Appropriateness. And screening requirements come out of site plan review rather than the fence rules.
Do you do commercial work?
Yes. Security fence, screening, dumpster enclosures and gates.
If screening is on your plan review, we can price it to what is actually required rather than to a guess.
Sources: Rogers Unified Development Code, the Rogers Code of Ordinances, and the City of Rogers Building Inspection guidance, August 2026. Rules change. Confirm anything critical with the city at 479-621-1100 before you build.