Last night we here in south jersey had hail. It beat up a few plants but they will make it. My question is the hail Aldo knocked off some close to ripe fruit will this fruit if I leave it out get ripe? Or is it shot?

Ripening only happens on the plant.

Unfortunately Jon is right. The ripening process stops once figs are picked/knocked off.

It seems another fig friend reported his trees were badly impacted by the sudden hail storm in the NY area. It is so unfortunate that this happens at a time when the figs are starting to ripen as well as impacting the tree's general well being with few leaves left as we move closer to colder weather.

That really sucks because one was a new fog for this year and I only let it have one fruit. It os close but not soft enough. Oh well next year will be better. Funny thing is the fruit is soft where the hail pounded it. I though maybe it was ripe but the other side is still too hard. Thanks any way guys.

Figs will soften when taken off, and the juices tend to concentrate.  It won't ripen more, but it will soften if it's close enough to ripe.  Just don't expect better flavor (it's not a tomato)

Put it in a freezer bag and stash it in the freezer.  Do this with any unripe figs and when you have a bag full, make some fig jam!

Thanks Jason and Sara I will try one then the other.