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Pacific Domes Dome Home (general line, multiple diameters)
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The Dome Home (general line, multiple diameters), a geodesic dome kit from Pacific Domes, is published at $10,000 to $1,000,000 for the kit.
Pacific Domes does not publish a wind rating, a snow load or anything about fire for this model, so 81 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
19 percent of the fields we score are backed by something Pacific Domes 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.
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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. |
|---|---|
| Cost honesty weight 25 | 45 publishes a price, publishes a range rather than one misleading number, does not say what the price covers |
| Materials and carbon tier weight 15 | 40 new steel framing, a higher 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 Pacific Domes's own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.
| Build type | Geodesic dome |
|---|---|
| Structural system | Galvanized steel frame (three frame-strength options: Standard 1.31in, Burly 1.66in, Extreme 1.9in tubing) with fabric membrane cover (PVC/vinyl, SunShield or Thermo-shield coating options) |
| Finished size | Not published |
| Bedrooms | Not published |
| Bathrooms | Not published |
| Wall R value | Not published |
| Roof R value | Not published |
| Foundation types | Not published |
| 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. Read from the construction 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 | Not published |
|---|---|
| Roof snow capability | Not published |
| Seismic | Site states domes 'can withstand... earthquakes' but explicitly tells buyers to obtain the seismic rating required for their location from their local County Building Department; no company-published seismic number found. |
| Fire | Not published |
Price
$10,000 to $1,000,000
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 | Not published |
|---|
What else we found
Marketing copy states domes 'start at around $10,000 and depending on size and features they can go up to $1m plus', this is a broad, non-model-specific marketing range, not a quoted price for a defined package. Wind/snow resistance is described only in qualitative marketing language ('withstand high winds,' 'heavy snow loads'); no numeric mph or psf rating is published on the pages fetched, despite this being a category where such numbers are typically a selling point. Structure is a fabric-covered steel frame, not a rigid insulated wall system by default; R-values require add-on insulation packages not detailed publicly. Direct fetch of pacificdomes.com pages returned 403 errors; data drawn from a landing-page mirror and a knowledge-base FAQ page that were accessible.
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 design wind speed is this model engineered to, in miles per hour, and at what Risk Category and Exposure Category?
- 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?
- Which foundation types does this kit support, and can it sit on piers above a base flood elevation?
- What is the wall R value, and is that nominal insulation or a tested whole assembly value including thermal bridging?
- What is the roof R value, and is it nominal or whole assembly?
- What is the finished square footage of this model?
- 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 19 percent.
Questions people ask about the Pacific Domes Dome Home (general line, multiple diameters)
Answered from what Pacific Domes publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".
How much does the Pacific Domes Dome Home (general line, multiple diameters) cost?
Pacific Domes publishes $10,000 to $1,000,000. They do not itemise what that covers.
What wind speed is the Pacific Domes Dome Home (general line, multiple diameters) engineered to?
Pacific Domes does not publish a design wind speed for this model. Only about one kit maker in ten publishes one. Note that "hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, so a page using that phrase without a number has told you nothing.
What snow load can the Pacific Domes Dome Home (general line, multiple diameters) roof take?
Pacific Domes does not publish a snow load for this model. Around one maker in twenty does.
Can you actually buy the Pacific Domes Dome Home (general line, multiple diameters)?
Yes. Pacific Domes takes orders for this model today.
What foundation does the Pacific Domes Dome Home (general line, multiple diameters) need?
Pacific Domes does not publish foundation options for this model. That matters more than it sounds: in a FEMA A or V flood zone the finished floor has to sit above the base flood elevation, and a kit offered on a slab only cannot get there.
How well does the Pacific Domes Dome Home (general line, multiple diameters) 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, they publish nothing at all.
Will the Pacific Domes Dome Home (general line, multiple diameters) 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.
Compare
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Documented38%How it compares
It documents less than the average geodesic dome kit, 19 percent against 30. It publishes no wind rating, where 41 percent of geodesic dome makers do. Against the 7 geodesic dome kits with a comparable published price, it sits above 2 of them, and the middle of that group is $15,925.
Computed across all 514 kit homes in the Index, 17 of them geodesic dome. Recomputed on every build.
Sources
| Where these values came from | https://landing.pacificdomes.com/dome-homes/ |
|---|---|
| Maker's site | https://pacificdomes.com |
| Last checked | 13 August 2026 |
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