Fencing in Burbank, California
Fence work built for Burbank, from the Rancho corrals to the Verdugo foothills.
Wood, vinyl, chain link, wrought iron, ranch rail, and automatic gates. Licensed, insured crews do the setting, and the per linear foot number is in your hands in writing before a single hole gets dug. We quote to Burbank's own city code, because this city writes its own.
Cottages on the old valley grid, custom homes climbing the Verdugo slope, drive gates behind the Media District.
Get a residential estimateHorse-zoned R-1-H lots in the southeast, on the Griffith Park side by the LA Equestrian Center.
Get a Rancho estimateCall and you get a person. Coming out to your lot costs nothing.
Two tracks
We build for the Burbank you actually live in.
Burbank is not one fencing job, it is four or five. So the rest of this page runs on two tracks, one for ordinary residential lots and one for the horse-zoned Rancho. Take whichever matches your address.
Residential
Magnolia Park, Downtown Burbank, the Media District, and the custom homes up in the Burbank Hills.
Go to residential fencing Track twoRancho Equestrian
The R-1-H horsekeeping pocket in the southeast, on large lots beside the LA Equestrian Center.
Burbank permits its own fences under Municipal Code Title 10, and the figure that surprises people is eight feet, which is what the code allows once you are clear of the front and street-facing side setbacks.
Go to equestrian fencingFencing for every corner of Burbank.
Five ways to close a residential lot here, each priced by the linear foot and drawn to Municipal Code Title 10 before anybody orders material.
Wood Fencing
Cedar and redwood privacy, the natural fit for the Magnolia Park cottages and the older valley grid.
Vinyl Fencing
PVC privacy that holds its color through a long, dry Burbank summer and asks nothing of you after.
Wrought Iron Fencing
Tubular steel and ornamental iron. It will not burn, and it stays open enough for the front yard rule.
Chain Link Fencing
Galvanized or vinyl-coated. The workhorse for side yards, dog runs, alley lines, and the back of the lot. Burbank has not allowed new chain link in a front yard since 2017.
Gates & Automatic Gates
Privacy and security driveway gates with real access control, for Media District and hillside homes.
Down on the flat valley floor around Magnolia Park, and on the streets running off Hollywood Way and Riverside Drive, the houses are 1920s through 1950s cottages and bungalows on a tight older grid, often with a detached garage and an alley behind. The soil there is coarse alluvial sand and gravel washed down off the mountains, so it digs easily and drains well, and the real puzzle is fitting a clean run past a narrow side yard and an alley gate. Up in the Burbank Hills the picture flips: decomposed granite and bedrock, steeper ground, and posts that need proper footings and a stepped or racked panel line to look straight.
Fencing sized for a horse, not just for a yard.
Then there is the Rancho Equestrian District in the southeast, zoned for horsekeeping next to the LA Equestrian Center, where the fence has to be safe for animals first and handsome second. That is a different craft, and we treat it that way.
Ranch Rail Fencing
Three-rail, pipe corral, and horse-safe fence for the Rancho Equestrian District.
Paddock and Run Perimeter
Vinyl-coated mesh run behind the rail on a big Rancho lot, so a hoof, a foal, or a dog never finds the gap.
Barn and Drive Gates
Swing and slide gates set wide enough for a trailer coming in off the street, latched so a rider can work them one-handed.
Why Burbank neighbors call us
Solid work, and a number you can hold us to.
Residential trackRancho trackSame crew, same code, same written price
Burbank fencing, up close
Two things run through nearly every fence we build here. The first is who signs off. Burbank is a full-service city with its own building department, so a fence is reviewed by the City of Burbank Community Development Department under Municipal Code Title 10, not by LADBS or the County. The front yard rule is where that catches people out. On a street-facing yard, only the bottom portion, roughly the first two feet, may be solid, and anything above that has to be an open design you can largely see through, with city review for taller work. We quote to that from the start so nothing has to come back down, and we point you to the counter to confirm the standard for your specific zone.
The second is fire and wind. Behind the hillside streets, the Verdugo brush sits in a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, so near the house we favor metal, block, or masonry and hold solid wood back to protect defensible space. Santa Ana winds push hard through this end of the valley, and a solid six foot fence catches every bit of it, so posts and gates are set for that load rather than just squared up and hoped for.
- Licensed, insured crewsLicensed, insured installers do the work, and that paperwork is checked and current before a truck pulls up at your address.
- Warranty on the laborManufacturers stand behind their material. What we put in writing stands behind the workmanship, meaning how the fence was actually built and set.
- A fixed number, itemizedOne quote by the linear foot, with posts, panels, gates, and demolition each carrying their own line on it.
- We know Burbank's own codeWe work to Municipal Code Title 10 and the City of Burbank Building Division, not to county or City of Los Angeles rules.
Questions
Asked on nearly every Burbank estimate.
Three that come up on both tracks. The longer list lives on the FAQ page.
How much does a fence cost per linear foot in Burbank?
Installed, chain link sits at $18 to $40 per linear foot, ranch rail at $18 to $38, wood at $30 to $60, vinyl at $40 to $70, and wrought iron at $50 to $120. Set that against a 150 foot run of six foot wood privacy fence and you are usually looking at $4,500 to $9,000, before city plan review or foothill footings in decomposed granite.
Do I need a permit to build a fence in Burbank?
Burbank is its own city with its own building department, so fence permits go through the City of Burbank Community Development Department, Building Division, not LADBS or the City of Los Angeles. A standard rear or side yard fence at the allowed height often needs no permit, while a masonry wall, a fence taller than the code limit, or work in a corner sight triangle does. The rules sit in Burbank Municipal Code Title 10.
Are your fencing crews licensed and insured?
Yes. Licensed, insured crews set every fence in Burbank, and that paperwork is kept current in our files rather than sorted out after the first post hole is dug.
Book the walk-through.
Somebody comes out, walks the line with you, reads the ground and the wind coming off the Verdugos, notes what the Building Division will look for, and leaves a written price behind. Nobody chases you after that.
Both tracks end here. Residential or Rancho, it is the same phone and the same crew.