The serious version: soil mounded, humped, or cracked in an arc on one side of the trunk — usually the side opposite the lean — with roots on the lean side pulled upward or a gap opening between trunk and soil. Turf or mulch split in a crescent. It typically shows up within hours or days of a storm or heavy rain, often alongside a lean that was not there before. The benign version looks different: individual surface roots that have raised the lawn gradually and evenly over many years, with no crack, no arc, no lean, and no recent change.
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When soil lifts in an arc, the root plate is rotating out of the ground. The tree is not settling and it is not adjusting to the wind — anchorage has partly failed and the root mass on the far side is levering the ground upward. This is the one sign on this list that describes a failure already in progress rather than a condition that might eventually cause one. Gradual root-raised turf means the opposite: roots simply growing near the surface, with no loss of anchorage and no hazard.
This is normally a emergency tree service job, which around here runs $500 to $3,500 depending on size and access. Treat that as a range, not a quote — nobody can price it without seeing it.
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