I guess I can't help but be a garden pooper: we have so much great fruit that WILL grow in our climate, why set yourself up for disappointment? I have grapes, peaches, apricot, fig and raspberries. Apple and pear do well, and there's some amazing cherries around town too. My wife reproaches me for planting a golden rain tree when we moved here instead of a cherry, her favorite fruit.

After pruning a bunch of sprouts, my fig has 4 nice trunks reaching 7' now from it's stump. All we need is a few milder winters than the last 2.

I have three citrus trees. A lime, an orange, and a ponderosa lemon. All three do well in the summer getting full sun. However, only the Ponderosa blooms giving me one or two fruits a year.

The other trees never bloom but otherwise look healthy.

I keep the plants under CFLs with 5,000+ kelvin rating during the winter which is enough to keep them alive until spring arrives.

not figs, but figured this would attract the same readers:

Plant Porn Catalog aka White Flower Farm showed up yesterday. They are offering a Meyer Lemon that would grow outdoors (in a pot) in warm weather then winter indoors. Anyone have experience with citrus in and out?

Roughly 10 degrees is the tipping point for figs but a lot has to do with where they are planted. I will echo what others have said - it's too early to tell, but I think its worth noting that the microclimate in the area lends to plants safely weathering the winter.

If the fig is planted in the ground and in a protected yard (inside a block) there is a good chance it survived. I have a number of anuals that perpetually survive - and every spring I am still surprised. Especially over the last two winters.

If the fig was planted at the front of a building I would say its more a gamble... but there is a fig that grows at the intersection of 8th & Erie (NW corner) that has been around for a few seasons and fruits every year.

More info than you needed, but good luck!

BTW: The fig tree may not be out of the woods yet. It looks like another blast of cold and snow will hit us before March is done.

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Brewster is right - wayyy too early. And don't give up when your garden is in bloom and your fig tree still looks like it is dead. They don't wake up like the rest of your garden does in spring. My fig was amazingly resilient - in much worse winters than this.

Way too early to know.

I know there was a thread, but nothing came up when I searched 'fig'

Time to inspect the garden - any indicators that would tell me whether my fig tree survived the winter?