HomeGuide, Angi and HomeAdvisor put a wood fence at $18 to $45 a foot installed across Texas, for a six-foot fence on flat ground before tear-out, gates and slope, and a Fort Worth replacement falls in that range. We measure your yard on site and quote the exact footage, picket grade and tear-out in writing, free.
Most homeowners reading a range like that have already lived the problem: the fence that failed too soon, the quote that left out the grade, the crew that never came back. A range tells you where the market sits. It cannot tell you what your fence line costs, and the picket grade, footage and tear-out are what move your number inside it.
Wood fence replacement in Fort Worth costs $18 to $45 a foot
Pressure-treated pine runs $20 to $45 per foot installed and cedar runs $35 to $80 per foot, nationally (HomeGuide, 2026). Cedar sits at the top of the wood scale, and the cedar figure is the one most Fort Worth homeowners are really pricing, because cedar pickets are what most privacy fences use.
For a standard six-foot cedar privacy fence in Fort Worth, a typical price is $25 to $45 per linear foot, materials and installation included. That is the market speaking rather than our quote. Pine sits below it and premium cedar sits above it.
A foot of fence is only a unit. Two quotes at the same price per foot can describe two different fences, because the picket grade, the post depth and the tear-out behind the price are what you are really buying. The footage you multiply by matters just as much, and it comes from a tape on your fence line rather than from a map.
What do iron, vinyl and chain link fences cost in Fort Worth?
Ornamental and wrought iron runs $50 to $85 per foot installed, with custom work reaching $130 (HomeGuide, Angi, 2026). Vinyl runs about $45 to $74 per foot on real 2026 installs (Ergeon, 2026), and standard chain link runs $12 to $25 per foot for a 4-to-6-foot fence (HomeGuide, Angi, 2026).
Texas-specific guides land in the same neighborhood. Statewide, ornamental iron and aluminum run $30 to $65 per foot (Fence Advisors, 2026). A six-foot vinyl privacy fence runs $28 to $50 (Fence Advisors, 2026), and composite runs $40 to $75 (Fence Advisors, 2026).
Houston is the nearest metro with a published local guide. There, true wrought iron and steel ornamental fence runs $55 to $95+ per foot (Griffin Fence Houston, 2026), while ornamental aluminum runs $38 to $65. Vinyl and composite run $38 to $58, and standard chain link runs $18 to $28.
Chain link shows how much one number can hide. Ergeon’s booked installs put 4-foot, 5-foot and 6-foot residential chain link at $36 to $43 per linear foot (Ergeon, 2026). The real step up comes at 7 feet, about $75 per foot, and at 8 feet, about $78. Height changes the price more than the material name does, so tell every contractor the height you want before you compare numbers.
What else adds to the cost of replacing a Fort Worth fence?
Old fence removal adds $3 to $8 per linear foot, and gates add $150 to $800 for a walk-through and $400 to $900+ for a double driveway gate. Staining is an added expense that depends on the fence size and the product you pick.
Those items turn a per-foot figure into a bill. Removal scales with footage, so a long fence line pays for it many times over. A gate is a flat add, but a driveway gate costs several times what a walk-through does. A quote that lists none of them either includes them or leaves them for a change order later, and you want to know which before you sign.
Staining shows up last and gets forgotten first. If you want a stained cedar fence, put it in the quote request with the footage so the number you hold already includes it. Slope and trees change a job too, which is one more reason a measured quote beats a phone range.
What does a 150-foot Fort Worth backyard fence replacement cost?
A typical 150-foot backyard with a six-foot cedar privacy fence budgets at around $4,500 to $7,500 including removal, depending on materials, posts and gates. For a complete replacement of an average backyard, including removal of the old fence, a budget of approximately $4,000 to $9,000 covers most yards.
The spread comes from the same few things. Standard cedar privacy runs $25 to $45 per linear foot, and removal of the old fence adds its own per-foot charge on top of that. Longer fence lines, extra gates and heavier materials push a yard toward the top of the range, and a short, straight line with one gate sits near the bottom.
Use the range to decide whether a replacement fits your budget, then get one number from a tape. A $5,000 spread between the low and high end of a yard is the cost of not knowing your footage, your grade or your gates. Our estimate removes that spread, and it costs you nothing.
Why do Fort Worth fence quotes for the same fence differ so much?
Quotes for the same yard differ because of the picket grade (#1 through #3), post depth, what tear-out and haul-off the price includes, and how the footage was measured. A quote that leaves out the grade cannot be compared with one that names it.
Wood is graded from #1 picket through #3 picket and priced accordingly. On our side, a salesperson meets you on site, measures the linear footage and confirms the fence type and picket grade. Pricing is per linear foot, set by the footage measured and the grade you choose, and the grade is named in writing on the quote. We measure on site before we write the quote.
Rival reviewers describe what a quote without that detail leads to. A 1-star Google review of Fence Pros of Texas from March 27, 2026 reads: “No showing an initial evaluation and quote with no notifications”. In a 2-star Google review of Texas Fence from May 19, 2026, the reviewer described gates that fell apart and two repair visits within a couple of months of the install.
Another reviewer, in a 1-star Google review of Southland Fence & Supply from September 25, 2026, wrote about paying a deposit and never hearing back. Ask each contractor for footage, grade, post depth and tear-out in writing, then compare.
