Well, the trees are out finally (a few weeks ago).  As they start breaking bud, it looks like a banner year for breba.  My Conadria has 51 breba on it.  Aubique Petite has 49.  Chiapetta has 31 (and it's a small tree).  Various of the small Frank's Fig Unknown trees have between 30 and 40, and one of them has 54.  Even Madeleine Des Deux Saisons has 17.  Negronne has 35.  Others are similarly heavily loaded with breba.  Now, I expect that not all of these figs will ripen... some of the trees are probably too small to support ripening that many breba.  But some of these varieties have traditionally been more notable for producing main crop rather than breba (Frank's Fig excepted).  Still, it's looking like a promising year for breba here!

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

I've got similar amounts on Bourjasotte Gris and Verte.  Main crops on all are starting.  Figs for breakfast soon!

Suzi

Even RDB has some breba on it here this year.  I've never had RDB make breba in prior years.  (Though I see that someone else on another thread mentioned getting LOTS of RDB brebas... here it has been a mostly main crop fig cultivar).  

I've never seen a year start out with so many breba.  Must be something about last year's growth, weather, and the fall and winter.  Anyway, here's hoping... especially those Frank's Fig unknown (likely a strain of English Brown Turkey) are very tasty breba.

Anyone else out there have a lot of breba this year?

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

Mike, I have a Chiappetta Unk. from the finder of this variety that is probably 3y old, it has 22 breba on it. It has been outside via the shuffle for about a month. My other trees are younger.

Hi Ed.  Yeah, mine came from Art also.  But I think mine is only 2 years old.  He had reported that that variety usually is pretty good with breba.  Glad to hear yours is doing well.

Mike

Yep most of my trees have a fair amount of breba on them

  2-летний смоковница "русский карлик." Breba

Hi,
Damn weather !
I already lost 2/3 of the brebas on "Goutte d'or" due to the mild/cold nights I suppose. It only had some 10 .
I have an unknown that lost half of them already and they keep vanishing.
A slug or bug bit my only "Osborn Prolific" breba . Well, keep going ! Whatever ripens will be welcomed !
There are still some brebas left, but I'm more near the 10s or less pro tree with some at 0 for now. Probably the reason why I have "so many" fig trees.

Dalmatski .Breba.  

VdB . Breba.  

Lots of varieties came out of storage with breba or put some on soon after.  Kathleen's Black had but dropped them.  Same with Old Brooklyn Italian, Patrick's Supergiant and Sal's Corleone.

Corynth put on a few and they look healthy.  This will be the first year.  Didn't think it was that early.

English Brown Turkey came on like gangbusters with a few dozen coming out of storage.  Pulled off some of the lesser performing breba and the top-most ones are getting much larger.

My in-ground Sweet Diana (Unk) has put them on like magic in the last week.  It feels like I blinked for a second and boom, there were dozens.

An update:  We had a couple of nights with frost (in mid and late May).  I covered the trees for one of them, but got some damage anyway.  I was away for the second one, and got some more damage.  From all of this, some of the trees dropped lots of breba.  Still, with the ones left, it's a great breba year here!  29 or 30 per tree on a few of the Frank's Fig trees, and still a relatively heavy number on others.  Can't wait for them to ripen!

Mike   central NY state, zone 5a

My Vdb dropped all its breba, but the rest of the trees are still hanging on to most of them....pretty excited and can't wait to taste them....this is what some of them look like now...

Happily I can say most of my young figs have lots of brebasl! 
Except curiously the old figs that I pinched a lot last year and they nicely ripened many figs last year don't have any breba this year.

Does anyone have a theory why this year is a breba buster and what factors may be in play?

Hi Pino,
I had the same problem here with my big ufti tree in 2013 and 2014.
I pinched her in 2013 to keep her smaller and to test and try to get more maincrop figs. For the maincrop figs it sort of worked (no other tree to compare) , as well as for the size.
But in 2014, that tree had no brebas on the pinched stems, although they had sprouted some little sub-stems . She had brebas on 2 stems that were shorter and that I didn't pinch.
I thought it could be related to my strain ufti. I wrote about that problem last year in one of my posts .

VdB, Breba+maincrop.