Is i think this tree is dead an emergency?
Within weeks. Structural decline on a clock rather than a present emergency. A tree is not dangerous the day it dies — it becomes dangerous as decay fungi consume the wood holding it up, and that consumption runs a predictable route: fine twigs first, then branches, then the trunk, while root decay works upward independently and invisibly.
What changes while you wait
Months to a few years for most species with nothing beneath them. Dead ash is the sharp exception and compresses that timeline hard: EAB-killed ash goes brittle quickly, sheds limbs early, and becomes genuinely unsafe to climb, which is why crews quote it as a bucket or crane job and will decline to climb it at any price. Conks or shelf mushrooms at the base mean internal decay is already extensive and move the schedule up — but that is a 'book it this month' finding, not a reason to pay a 2am emergency rate.
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