FENCE RULES – PIKE (COUNTY), MISSISSIPPI
OVERVIEW
Residential fences are permitted on private property within Pike County, subject to local regulations.
This page applies to properties in the unincorporated areas of Pike County; incorporated municipalities such as the City of McComb may regulate fences under their own ordinances.
Fence-related orientation for Pike County comes from the Pike County Ordinances directory, the Pike County Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance, the Pike County Subdivision Ordinance of 2024 and its predecessor documents, the Pike County driveway ordinance, the Pike County Board of Supervisors, the E-911 Department, and the Pike County Road Department. Pike County does not publish a consolidated local fence code, countywide zoning ordinance, local fence-permit page, or ordinary residential fence height, material, or yard-placement standard in the referenced published materials.
This page focuses on typical single-family residential fencing. If the jurisdiction’s adopted code or ordinance materials do not state a specific limit or requirement, this page notes that the code does not specify one. If no local code or ordinance is available in the approved source packet, this page notes that the jurisdiction does not publish the relevant standard in the referenced published materials.
Compiled From Pike County Ordinances, Pike County Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance adopted April 30, 2003, Pike County Subdivision Ordinances adopted May 15, 2009, February 2, 2015, December 4, 2017, and April 15, 2024, Pike County driveway ordinance adopted March 31, 2004, Pike County Board of Supervisors, Pike County E-911, Pike County Road Department, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Floodplain Management, Mississippi Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Law, and Mississippi 811 as of July 2026.
GOVERNANCE
Pike County governs county matters through the Pike County Board of Supervisors. The county publishes individual ordinances addressing subdivision platting, flood damage prevention, county-road driveways, and other subjects rather than a consolidated residential fence code or countywide zoning ordinance.
The Pike County Subdivision Ordinance of 2024 assigns approval of applicable residential subdivision plats to the Pike County Board of Supervisors and E-911 Director. That process governs subdivision platting and does not publish an ordinary fence permit requirement for an existing residential lot.
The Pike County Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance applies within mapped Special Flood Hazard Areas and appoints the E-911 Coordinator to serve as the Floodplain Administrator. The county department page currently identifies the E-911 Director for E-911 administration.
The Pike County Road Department oversees construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads and bridges. The 2004 driveway ordinance assigns permits for asphalt or concrete driveways intersecting county-maintained roads to the Pike County Road Superintendent.
The referenced published materials do not identify a residential building code currently administered by Pike County, a local building department, a statutory construction-code opt-out action, or a county or contracted residential-code arrangement. The Mississippi State Fire Marshal's adopted codes apply within the office's statutory jurisdiction and are not treated as the ordinary one- and two-family residential fence-permit baseline for Pike County.
PERMIT AND APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS
• Building-Code Administration Context: The referenced published materials do not identify the residential building code currently administered by Pike County and do not publish a separate local fence permit requirement for standard residential fences.
• Local Fence and Zoning Approval: Pike County does not publish a separate county fence permit, zoning permit, zoning certification, development approval, or site-plan approval requirement that explicitly applies to standard residential fences in the referenced published materials.
• Floodplain Development Permit: A Floodplain Development Permit is required before development activities begin in Special Flood Hazard Areas. The Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance defines development to include buildings or other structures, filling, grading, paving, excavating, and drilling, and defines an obstruction to include a fence in, along, across, or projecting into a watercourse when it may alter or impede flow or collect debris. Fence work meeting those conditions is reviewed by the E-911 Coordinator / Floodplain Administrator.
• County-Road Driveway Permit: A permit from the Pike County Road Superintendent is required before constructing an asphalt or concrete driveway that intersects a county-maintained road. This requirement applies to the driveway connection and is not an ordinary fence permit requirement.
• Subdivision Plat Context: The Pike County Subdivision Ordinance of 2024 requires applicable residential subdivision plats to be approved by the Board of Supervisors and E-911 Director and to show boundary, access, utility-right-of-way, and restrictive-covenant information. The ordinance does not explicitly state that standard residential fences require separate subdivision approval.
FENCE PLACEMENT RULES
• Property Lines: The ordinances do not state a setback requirement for standard residential fences from property lines; however, fences must be located entirely on the owner's property and must not encroach into rights-of-way or easements.
• Subdivision Boundary and Easement Context: For property governed by an approved subdivision plat, the 2024 Subdivision Ordinance requires exact boundary lines, existing utility rights-of-way, ingress and egress information, and restrictive covenants to appear in the plat materials. It also states that fence corners may not be used as points of beginning for proposed subdivisions. This is a platting and survey-control rule, not a general fence setback.
• Special Flood Hazard Areas: Fence placement that constitutes development in a Special Flood Hazard Area is subject to floodplain review before work begins. In designated floodways, encroachments and other development are prohibited unless a registered professional engineer certifies that the work will cause no increase in base-flood levels. Along streams in Special Flood Hazard Areas without established base-flood elevation or floodway data, the ordinance prohibits encroachments, including fill or structures, within a distance equal to two times the stream width at the top of the bank or 20 feet on each side from the top of the bank, whichever is greater, unless an engineer certifies no increase in flood levels. The ordinance separately defines a fence as a possible watercourse obstruction. These are floodplain and watercourse conditions, not countywide fence setbacks.
• County-Road and Driveway Context: The driveway ordinance addresses asphalt and concrete driveway connections, culverts, drainage, and access for ditch maintenance along county-maintained roads. It does not publish a fence or gate setback from county roads.
• Utility Safety: Mississippi law requires notice through Mississippi 811 before excavation where the Mississippi Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act applies. For fence projects that involve digging, including digging, drilling, augering, boring, grading, or other movement of earth, notice generally must be given at least three full working days before excavation begins. Mississippi 811 is a notification center and does not mark lines itself; member utilities or their locators mark covered facilities, and the excavator must check the positive-response status before beginning work where required. This statewide utility-notice framework is separate from local fence permitting, zoning, development approval, easement limits, right-of-way approvals, floodplain review, stormwater review, drainage review, historic or design review, HOA restrictions, and other applicable requirements.
FENCE HEIGHT AND VISIBILITY RULES
• Maximum Height: Pike County does not publish a defined maximum height for standard residential fences in the referenced published materials.
• Yard-Based Height: The referenced published materials do not specify a county height limit for front-yard, side-yard, rear-yard, corner-lot, rural residential, agricultural residential, or large-lot residential fences.
• Visibility: The referenced published materials do not specify a county clear-vision, sight-triangle, driveway-visibility, alley-visibility, or intersection-visibility standard for standard residential fences.
• Building-Code Context: Pike County does not identify a locally administered residential code edition in the referenced published materials, so no model-code fence-permit exemption is stated as a Pike County height limit or local permit rule.
MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITS
• Standard Materials: Pike County does not publish a defined residential fence material or construction standard in the referenced published materials.
• Prohibited Materials: The referenced published materials do not specify county residential standards for chain link, wood, vinyl, masonry walls, electric fencing, barbed wire, razor wire, finished-side orientation, opacity, gates, or decorative features.
• Floodplain Construction Context: The Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance does not prohibit a specific fence material, but a fence in, along, across, or projecting into a watercourse may be regulated as an obstruction when it may alter or impede water flow or collect debris.
• Pool Barriers: Pike County does not publish a county private residential pool-barrier standard in the referenced published materials.
PRIVATE RESTRICTIONS
The Pike County Subdivision Ordinance of 2024 requires applicable plat submissions to include restrictive covenants placed or proposed on the property. Those covenants, HOA rules, deed restrictions, private easements, architectural-review covenants, agricultural agreements, boundary agreements, recorded agreements, conservation easements, and similar private restrictions operate independently from county review and may be more restrictive than countywide published standards.
Private restrictions are not treated as Pike County permit approvals unless Pike County's published materials expressly make them part of county review.
REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT CONTEXT
Fence issues are typically reviewed during permit or approval review when required, and through complaint-based code enforcement. Examples include:
• Building-Code Administration: The referenced published materials do not identify the residential building code currently administered by Pike County or publish a separate ordinary residential fence permit requirement.
• Local Publication Limits: Pike County does not publish a consolidated residential fence code, countywide zoning ordinance, or defined ordinary residential fence height, material, or yard-placement standard in the referenced published materials.
• Floodplain Permit Review: Development activity in mapped Special Flood Hazard Areas is reviewed through the Floodplain Development Permit process administered by the E-911 Coordinator / Floodplain Administrator.
• Floodway and Watercourse Review: Review may address floodway encroachments, stream-bank conditions, excavation, grading, fill, structures, and a fence that may act as an obstruction in or along a watercourse.
• Subdivision Plat Review: For property subject to the Subdivision Ordinance, review may address approved boundaries, existing utility rights-of-way, access, restrictive covenants, subdivision-road rights-of-way, and the rule that fence corners cannot serve as points of beginning for proposed subdivisions.
• County-Road Driveway Review: The Pike County Road Superintendent reviews required permits for asphalt or concrete driveways intersecting county-maintained roads, including drainage, culvert, and ditch-maintenance concerns. The driveway permit is separate from ordinary fence work.
• Utility Safety: Mississippi 811 notice and positive-response requirements apply when fence work involves excavation covered by the Mississippi Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act.
USING THIS INFORMATION
This page provides general orientation on how residential fence rules are structured and applied within Pike County, based on the referenced published materials as of July 2026.
In addition to local fence rules, certain Mississippi laws apply statewide. See Statewide fence laws in Mississippi.
It is not legal advice and does not replace official ordinances, permits, zoning approvals, zoning certifications, development approvals, locally adopted building codes, surveys, or professional guidance. Rules and interpretations may change, and application may vary based on zoning district, site conditions, easements, rights-of-way, floodplain status, stormwater requirements, drainage conditions, historic district status, design-review status, rural or agricultural context, livestock or party-fence context, local building-code administration, adopted-code status, opt-out status, pool-barrier use, Mississippi 811 utility-safety requirements, coastal wetlands conditions, and private restrictions such as HOA covenants, deed restrictions, private agreements, or conservation easements. Before purchasing materials or beginning construction, confirm current requirements and any site-specific limitations with the Pike County Board of Supervisors, Pike County E-911 Department, Pike County Road Department, and any applicable private agreements. If this page conflicts with official ordinances, published guidance, or direction from Pike County staff, the official sources control. For legal advice or legal interpretation, consult a licensed attorney.