Tree Wise Designs Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft

Name: Tree Wise Designs Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft
Brand: Tree Wise Designs

The Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft, a yurt kit from Tree Wise Designs, has no published price, is engineered to 120 mph wind and carries 42 psf of roof snow load.

Tree Wise Designs does not publish anything about fire or a price for this model, so 69 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

31%

31 percent of the fields we score are backed by something Tree Wise Designs 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

Not ratedNot rated, which is the absence of a score rather than a bad one. We could not rate buyability or cost honesty, and a grade needs two of the three, so the materials and carbon tier score we do have stands on its own below. This says nothing about how the kit performs. A maker can publish an excellent wind and snow rating and still be unrateable here, because this grade measures whether you can buy it, whether the price is honest, and what it is made of.

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 Tree Wise Designs's own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.

Build type	Yurt
Structural system	Wood frame with steel brackets and cables holding frame to platform, 18 oz vinyl-coated polyester fabric cover; hard-sided cabin-yurt line also offered
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	10 weeks
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	120 mph
Roof snow capability	42 psf
Seismic	Not published
Fire	Not published

Price

Not published

This maker publishes no price. That is the single most common gap in the Index, and it is the first thing to ask them.

What that number covers	Not published

What else we found

Company publishes specific numbers, 120 mph wind load ('added uplift protection due to steel brackets and cables') and 42 psf roof snow load, but the FAQ does NOT name a testing lab or state whether this is a PE-stamped engineering calculation vs. an internal marketing claim, so treat as an unverified ENGINEERING CLAIM, not a confirmed tested rating, until the buyer sees a stamped drawing. Lead time stated as 8-12 weeks from order to ship. Company phone has a Minnesota (218) area code.

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 does this cost, in dollars, and exactly which build stages does that number cover?
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?
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?
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 31 percent.

Questions people ask about the Tree Wise Designs Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft

Answered from what Tree Wise Designs publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".

How much does the Tree Wise Designs Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft cost?

Tree Wise Designs publishes no price for this model. Across the whole Index only about a third of makers publish a price in dollars at all.

What wind speed is the Tree Wise Designs Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft engineered to?

Tree Wise Designs publishes 120 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 Tree Wise Designs Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft roof take?

Tree Wise Designs publishes 42 psf for this model. Check whether that is a ground snow load or a roof load, because they are different numbers and makers are not consistent about which one they quote.

Can you actually buy the Tree Wise Designs Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft?

Yes. Tree Wise Designs takes orders for this model today.

What foundation does the Tree Wise Designs Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft need?

Tree Wise Designs 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 Tree Wise Designs Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft 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 120 mph design wind speed.

Will the Tree Wise Designs Soft-Sided Yurt, 20-25 ft 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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How it compares

It documents more than the average yurt kit, 31 percent against 27, and more than 10 of the other 16 we hold. Publishing a design wind speed puts it in the 35 percent of yurt makers that do.

Computed across all 514 kit homes in the Index, 17 of them yurt. Recomputed on every build.

Sources

Where these values came from	https://treewisedesigns.com/faq/
Maker's site	https://treewisedesigns.com/
Last checked	13 August 2026

Values are what the maker published on the date above. Makers change pages without notice. If you find something out of date, write to hello@kithomefinder.com and we will recheck it and re-cite it. Members can dispute any figure on the page, and the dispute and its resolution are both published.

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