Wire Fence Calculator

Count mesh rolls or individual wire strands, separating line posts, terminals, gates and planned braces.

Your measurements

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Use the unit on each label. You can also type feet and inches with ft and in, or the marks on your tape measure.

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Your material list

1 wire roll

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Solid fence length along slope
48 ft
Wire before allowance
48 ft
end posts
2
corner posts
0
gate posts
0
grade posts
0
line posts
5
Brace sets
Enter your design’s brace count
Line-post ties or insulators
Enter system requirement

48 ft horizontal lengthFence section0 ft grade rise
Post layout for the selected section. A dashed opening is the gate. Rise is listed separately; this is not a sloped elevation. Dense runs show fixed posts only.

The calculation

  1. 48 × 1 × (1 + 10/100) ÷ 100, rounded up = 1 rolls

How to plan the quantity

Mesh needs one length along each solid run; strand fencing multiplies that length by the number of strands. Gate openings are excluded from both.

Shared corners and grade changes are counted once by the run topology. Terminal posts stay separate from line posts so the bracing schedule can be checked.

Rolls round after the allowance. Tension, energizers, grounding, attachment details and brace geometry remain system-specific inputs or supplier questions.

Before you order

  • This does not choose post depth, wire tension, an animal-containment specification or an electric-fence design.
  • Brace counts come from your accepted layout, not an assumed universal rule.