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The 16 Wall Luxury Yurt-Cabin Kit (solid walls), a yurt kit from Freedom Yurt-Cabins, is published at $37,900 for the kit, covers 387 square feet and is engineered to 115 mph wind.
Freedom Yurt-Cabins does not publish a snow load or anything about fire for this model, so 50 percent of the fields we score are blank.
None of that tells you whether it works on your land. Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance are site specific engineering, so the only useful answer comes from running this kit against your address.
Completeness
50 percent of the fields we score are backed by something Freedom Yurt-Cabins published. Why completeness is never part of the grade.
The thing nobody else will tell you
This kit cannot be scored on its own. Nothing on this page tells you whether it works on your land.
Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance come from your address, not from this kit. Put in an address and the gates run against the real requirement at that point.
Score this kit against my land
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The Kit Home Finder Grade
| Buyability weight 25 | Not rated Not enough published to rate ordering. We need to know whether you can place an order, plus at least two of the price, the lead time and where they deliver. |
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| Cost honesty weight 25 | 51 publishes a price, itemises 4 of 14 build stages |
| Materials and carbon tier weight 15 | 80 light wood framing, a lower to middle embodied carbon class |
Rubric v1.0, August 2026. Site fit is not in this grade, because it depends on your land rather than on the kit. Every weight, and what we refuse to grade.
What the maker publishes
Everything here came off Freedom Yurt-Cabins's own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.
| Build type | Yurt |
|---|---|
| Structural system | Solid wood walls with roundwood frame and rafters, bolt-together design, platform anchored to paver blocks |
| Finished size | 387 sq ft |
| Bedrooms | Not published |
| Bathrooms | Not published |
| Wall R value | 9.7 |
| Roof R value | 13.7 |
| Foundation types | Paver-block anchored platform |
| Lead time | Not published |
| Delivers to | Not published |
| Country | United States |
| Build difficulty | Hand tools and helpers Assembled from parts by hand. Slow rather than technical. This maker says an owner can put it up themselves. Read from the maker and the method. |
What the maker says it resists
Design capability as published. Not a certification, not a rating of your house, and not proof against anything.
| Engineered wind speed | 115 mph |
|---|---|
| Roof snow capability | Not published |
| Seismic | Not published |
| Fire | Not published |
Price
$37,900
This is the number the maker publishes. What it covers is in the line below, and it is almost never the finished cost of a house.
| What that number covers | 7ft 4in solid walls, two double-pane low-E windows, DuroLast roof cover, snow and wind protection kit, wall insulation, roof insulation, 360-degree dome lifter, Sunbrella valance/awning |
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What else we found
This is a 'yurt-cabin' hybrid with solid insulated wood walls rather than a fabric wall, it is one of the few yurt-style products in this research with both a published wind rating and published wall/roof R-values. Wind rating is 115 mph standard, stated to increase to 120 mph with the optional snow/wind kit; described as an engineered rating tied to specific structural upgrades (4in rafter upgrade, $975) rather than an independent lab certification. Wall R-value upgradable to 15.4 with added insulation package. No numeric snow load (psf) published. Diameter 22ft 2.5in, 387 sq ft. Company states assembly in as little as 3 days.
Questions to send this maker
Generated from what they left blank. Every one of these is a thing they could answer today and have chosen not to publish. Copy them into an email. If they answer, tell us and we will update this page with the citation.
- What ground snow load can the roof carry, in pounds per square foot, and is that the ground load or the roof load?
- What is the roof assembly's fire classification, and are the vents ember resistant?
- What Seismic Design Category will you engineer this model to, and is that included or a paid upgrade?
- What is the lead time in weeks from deposit to delivery, right now?
- Which states will you deliver to, and which will you not?
Across the whole Index, the average kit publishes about a quarter of what a buyer needs. This maker is at 50 percent.
Questions people ask about the Freedom Yurt-Cabins 16 Wall Luxury Yurt-Cabin Kit (solid walls)
Answered from what Freedom Yurt-Cabins publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".
How much does the Freedom Yurt-Cabins 16 Wall Luxury Yurt-Cabin Kit (solid walls) cost?
Freedom Yurt-Cabins publishes $37,900. 7ft 4in solid walls, two double-pane low-E windows, DuroLast roof cover, snow and wind protection kit, wall insulation, roof insulation, 360-degree dome lifter, Sunbrella valance/awning
What wind speed is the Freedom Yurt-Cabins 16 Wall Luxury Yurt-Cabin Kit (solid walls) engineered to?
Freedom Yurt-Cabins publishes 115 mph for this model. That is their design capability at the conditions they assume, not a rating of your house. Your required design wind speed depends on your address, your Risk Category and your Exposure Category.
What snow load can the Freedom Yurt-Cabins 16 Wall Luxury Yurt-Cabin Kit (solid walls) roof take?
Freedom Yurt-Cabins does not publish a snow load for this model. Around one maker in twenty does.
Can you actually buy the Freedom Yurt-Cabins 16 Wall Luxury Yurt-Cabin Kit (solid walls)?
Yes. Freedom Yurt-Cabins takes orders for this model today.
What foundation does the Freedom Yurt-Cabins 16 Wall Luxury Yurt-Cabin Kit (solid walls) need?
Freedom Yurt-Cabins publishes: Paver-block anchored platform
How well does the Freedom Yurt-Cabins 16 Wall Luxury Yurt-Cabin Kit (solid walls) stand up to a hurricane or a wildfire?
The honest answer is what it resists, and under what conditions. No kit home is proof against either, and any page telling you otherwise is selling. "Hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, no house can be tornado rated, and whole building certifications like LEED, Passive House and HERS all require a built, sited, inspected home and cannot be attached to a model from a spec sheet. What a maker can honestly tell you is what the design resists and under what conditions. For this model, that is a 115 mph design wind speed.
Will the Freedom Yurt-Cabins 16 Wall Luxury Yurt-Cabin Kit (solid walls) work on my land?
Nothing on any spec sheet can answer that, including this one. Wind, snow, seismic, flood and soil requirements come from your address, not from the kit. The Kit Home Finder runs every kit in the Index against the published hazard data for your point and shows you what survives and why the rest did not. It is free.
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Documented31%How it compares
It documents more than the average yurt kit, 50 percent against 27, and more than every other yurt kit we hold. Publishing a design wind speed puts it in the 35 percent of yurt makers that do. Against the 10 yurt kits with a comparable published price, it sits above 9 of them, and the middle of that group is $11,175.
Computed across all 514 kit homes in the Index, 17 of them yurt. Recomputed on every build.
Sources
| Where these values came from | https://backyardescapism.com/products/16-wall-luxury-yurt-cabin-kit-with-solid-walls-by-freedom-yurt-cabins |
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| Maker's site | https://freedomyurtcabins.com |
| Last checked | 13 August 2026 |
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