Hog Wire Fence Installation in Portland, OR
A hog wire fence is a cedar frame built around welded steel wire panels. You keep your view, your light, and your sightlines while still defining the yard. We build them across the Portland metro in Grade 1 cedar with stainless fasteners, and we back the work with a real warranty.
- Grade 1 or better cedar, standard on every install
- Stainless steel fasteners, no rust streaking
- Limited 3-year workmanship warranty
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What Is a Hog Wire Fence?
A hog wire fence (also written hogwire, and sometimes called a wire panel or stock panel fence) is a wood frame with a welded steel wire panel set inside it. The wire does the containing. The cedar frame does the looking-good.
The name comes from agricultural stock panels, but the modern residential version is a different animal: cleaner welds, tighter frames, and cedar milled to look like furniture rather than farm equipment.
The reason people choose it over a solid privacy fence is simple. It defines a boundary without walling anything off. If you have a view worth keeping, a garden that needs light, or a small yard that a 6-foot solid fence would make feel like a box, hog wire solves the problem that privacy fencing creates.
Want to see every style side by side? Browse our complete fence styles guide, or see our full fence installation page.
Hog Wire, Hog Panels and Cattle Panels: What Is the Difference?
The names get used interchangeably, and they come from the same place: welded wire stock panels made for farms. The panels are rigid, heavy-gauge steel sold in 16 foot lengths, in heights from 34 inches up to about 60 inches depending on the animal they were designed to hold.
| Panel | What it is | How it looks in a yard |
|---|---|---|
| Hog panel | The short one. A common size is 34 inches tall by 16 feet, with 4 gauge vertical wires and 5 gauge horizontal wires, galvanized before welding. The openings are small at the bottom and open up toward the top. | Tight at ground level, which holds small dogs and keeps rabbits out of a garden |
| Cattle panel | A taller panel with larger openings, made to hold bigger animals. | The most open look, suited to taller runs |
| Welded wire mesh | Lighter wire on a smaller, even grid, sold in rolls or sheets. | A finer, more modern look, but it needs a tighter frame to stay flat |
A hog wire fence is what you get when one of those panels goes inside a cedar frame. The frame is what makes it residential: the cedar posts and rails hold the panel flat and square, cover its cut edges, and turn a farm product into something that looks built for the house. The panel you choose sets the look and what it will hold, so we pick it with you for the height and the job, whether that is a dog, a garden or simply marking the line.
Where a Hog Wire Fence Works Best
Front Yards
Defines the property line without hiding the house. Common on Portland bungalows and craftsman homes where a solid front fence would look wrong.
Gardens
Keeps rabbits, dogs, and foot traffic out of the beds while letting full sun through to your plants.
Yards With a View
Any lot backing onto trees, a greenbelt, a slope, or water. A solid fence throws that view away.
Small Yards
Sightlines through the fence make a compact yard feel considerably larger than a solid perimeter would.
Pets, Without the Wall
The wire holds dogs securely without blocking your view of the yard or theirs.
Mixed Runs
Plenty of our jobs run hog wire along the visible front or view side, then switch to solid cedar along the neighbor-facing sides where privacy actually matters.
Where It Is the Wrong Choice
Worth saying plainly, because most pages on this topic will not.
You want privacy. Hog wire is see-through by design. If the point of the fence is to not see your neighbor, this is the wrong style. Look at board on board or a good neighbor fence instead.
You need to block wind or noise. Open wire does neither.
You have a climbing dog. The horizontal wire grid can give some dogs a foothold. Ask us about panel spacing and height before you commit, and see our dog fence guide for the styles that stop climbers.
Specs and Standards
| Heights | Commonly 3, 4, 5, and 6 feet. Taller runs on request. |
| Frame | Grade 1 or better cedar, standard, never builder-grade |
| Panels | Welded steel wire panel, set inside the cedar frame |
| Posts | Heavy-duty pressure-treated, or lifetime steel posts on request |
| Footings | Set in concrete |
| Fasteners | Stainless steel, standard on every cedar install |
| Options | Top rail cap, post caps, post trim, kick board |
| Workmanship warranty | Limited 3 years, 5 years on select premium builds |
| Post warranty | Limited lifetime on metal posts |
| Gates | 1 year of free gate adjustment |
On the cedar grade. Most fence companies build with Grade 2 builder-grade cedar, which has more knots and warps, twists, and cracks in our wet climate. We use at least Grade 1 on every install and do not charge extra for it. On a hog wire fence this matters more than usual, because the frame is thin and fully exposed. There is no picket run to hide a board that twists.
On the fasteners. Stainless steel, standard. Cheaper fasteners rust and bleed dark streaks down cedar within a year or two, which on a minimal frame is impossible to ignore.
Considering steel posts under it? Our guide to a wood fence with metal posts covers why posts fail first in Portland soil and when steel is worth it.
The Front Yard Height Trap
Hog wire is most popular in front yards, and that is exactly where the height rules are tightest. Inside the City of Portland a fence in the front setback usually can be no taller than 3 feet 6 inches, measured to the very top of the frame. A 4 foot hog wire fence, one of the most common sizes, is too tall there. In the side and rear setbacks Portland allows up to 8 feet.
Gresham allows 4 feet forward of the front setback line and 6 feet elsewhere, and several nearby cities differ again. Because wire is see-through, people often assume the limit does not apply to it. Do not count on that: the rules are written for fences, and an open fence is not automatically exempt. Our guide to Portland fence height and property line rules covers each city line by line, and we check the rule for your address before anything is ordered.
Built for Portland Rain
Our wet season is hard on a fence like this in two specific ways.
Cedar frames on hog wire are slender by design, so wood movement shows more than it would on a solid fence. Grade 1 cedar, a top rail cap to shed water off the end grain, and correct fastening are what keep the frame straight and square through years of soaking and drying.
The other issue is where wood meets metal. Any fastener or panel edge that is not corrosion-resistant will streak the cedar in a climate this wet. That is why stainless is standard on our installs rather than an upsell.
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