Yes your plant is in need of urgent help. It maybe too late. I would definetly take cuttings now or airlayer the plant. You still have time to air layer. There is excellent information on airlayering techniques in this forum. Do a search. Water the plant on a daily basis for at least 10 days. Your plant may have nematodes. Check around this forum & there is lots of info on nematodes.

The fence and the dirt there look too perfect with just the fig tree growing there. There is no weeds or grass nothing but the tree , were the grounds recently worked over in that area?
Perhaps someone on forum might suggest after harvesting the figs this season cutting that tree down lower to sprout some healtier looking branches.

You're right Martin, maybe someone tilled the ground to close to this tree and killed a portion of the tree's roots........fig roots are rather shallow and often quite spreading from the trunk of the tree.

Suggestion.........water your tree well making sure to keep the soil moist and it should respond to that treatment. My guess if that this tree was severely neglected by the prior owner and that the roots recently suffered from a tilling operation that was much too close to this tree....leading to some root damage.

Dan

Yes it was recently tilled, our neighbor had the yard grated for run off as the builders thought it was fine having the yard slope into the house. This all happened before we bought the place.

We knocked off a nub down on the tree and found ants clearing out the termites. So the entire right side of the tree is dead and being taken care of by the termites. I'll be taking care of them...

I started the watering and we'll see what can be saved.