After an average start to summer we had 9 days in a row of thunderstorms with heavy rain and hail warnings for most of those days.  Last weekend we got serious hail & boy did it take a toll on the fig leaves and dropped some breba that were ripening.  

All broadleaf plants I saw had hail damage but the figs (& peppers) seem the most vulnerable.

Some fig plants completely stripped of leaves, most with serious damage and some varieties got only a little damage.  Glad I had put most of my rare & small figs away for the storm.

Lesson learned for me;  shelter any valuable figs before incoming hail storm.

Here are a few photos;    

Good advice to follow, Pino! A lot of hard work and beautiful results can be lost very quickly under adverse weather....

Ouch! So glad you had the chance to put away your little/rare ones! I'll have to keep this in mind with a week of storms coming up for us.

That sucks...

Hope they recuperate soon without affecting your fig production much.

Jeez Pino,the crap you Canadian figgers have to put up with from the weather!!.,I'm sure they will recover

Hope they make a fast recovery, so that they could ripen some quality fruit.

Hey Pino that happend to me last year. Dollar sized hail did a number on my truck. The trees took a beating some completely defoliated even broke branches.

This weather is insane rain everyother day and more tornado warning's this year than I've ever seen before.

Thanks for all the feedback!

The figs should recover albeit a bit on the ugly side with all the damaged leaves.  The forecast is for a couple more days of rain and then back to summer sun.  
Tomorrow after the rain I will give the figs a good feeding to help them recover.  The more damaged ones may revert to growing new branches and leaves rather than produce figs.  
More worried now about the garden since many plants shredded by the hail & don't look like they can recover.

I know how you feel Pino, we get our share of hail every spring-summer in Colorado. Every year is a gamble as to whether everything will get shredded or not. I plan to eventually build a hail protection structure for my figs and every raised bed in the garden. Similar to a pergola but using 1/4" or 1/2" hardware cloth for the roof. It only takes losing the majority of the garden one time to get the ambition going. I'm constantly watching My Radar app on my phone to see where the hail is.

I had a hail shelter in Amarillo many yrs ago. About 30x30ft and covered with galvanized hardware cloth, 1/2 inch I think. I loved the place. Saved a lot of damage from hail and since sides covered as well from the birds. I had grapes, nectarines and sweet cherry under it.

At least one yr I covered it with remnant carpet during a spring freeze.

That's great to know that 1/4" & 1/2" hardware cloth can do the trick for hail protection!
Thanks Calvin & Steve!

Just had hail last night. Dime size. Haven't had time to asses the damage, but the ones on my deck have a few holes in the leaves and some have chunks of leaves missing. Got 3 1/3 inches of rain in 45 min.