Lifelong Fig lover here.
As a child I was allowed to pick the occasional fig from my child hood friends fig tree in Hungary. Fuege!!
Testing for ripeness daily, only to find out>> it wasn't my turn!
I've had two figs in my back yard for the last 10 years. One tree bears lots of fruit, the other one sleeps. They are both over 10 feet tall.
For years I didn't have any fruit, until a nice gentleman at the farmers market told me that yes I do have fruit, its just that the deer get to it before I do. I thought the fruit was falling off, due to some nutritional deficiency in the soil! Duh me.
So now I do as I was told. I get 2 bricks of a stinky Dollar store soap 3 pack. A screw driver bores a hole through the center of the soap. A supermarket baggie handle gets stuffed into and through the center hole. I tie about 4 soaps per tree in strategic height into the perimeter of the fig tree. The soap smells like human, the baggie makes a noise and collects a bit of soapy water. When touched the deer get a bit of stinky soapy water surprise. So the last few years I've had nice silver dollar size fruit on my trees. I have no idea what kind of fig they are. Came from the local gardens store. One year I had the tiny weird borer with the stack of "ash like" sawdust. Next year it was gone. Never cut or burned anything. I'd love to get a bigger fig fruit if possible, but don't know what to look for here in NC.... So nice to meet you all.
central NC area 7a, big leaves and silverdollar size fruit, light brown outside and pinkish inside. Yummy! 
PS.. I can't touch the bottom of the birdhouse, it's probably 7 feet off the ground..