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Glowing Radroach
Fallout 76 NPC Type

Glowing Radroach is one of the Radroaches in Fallout 76, met at level 5. Killing one usually drops Radroach Meat.

It spawns at 106 locations in Appalachia. The largest counts are at Grafton, Shenandoah Visitor Center and Morgantown. It counts toward 1 daily or weekly challenge.

Level
5
Health
6

Find It on the Map

Open the Challenge Navigator with "Kill a Glowing Creature" added, then add the rest of today's challenges and plan one route for all of them.

Open the Challenge Navigator

Glowing Radroach Spawn Locations

Found at 106 locations across Appalachia, 1 in fixed spawns and 317 at chance spawn points. The largest share is at Grafton (1).

A plain number is how many are always there. The number after the is spawn points that may roll it; hover one for the odds.

Grafton
1 fixed
Shenandoah Visitor Center
13 × 40% chance
4 × 40% chance nearby
Morgantown
9 × 40% chance
Fort Defiance
8 × 40% chance
Abandoned Bog Town
7 × 40% chance
Dyer Chemical
7 × 40% chance
Hemlock Holes
4 × 40% chance
3 × 40% chance nearby
Raleigh Clay's Bunker
7 × 40% chance
Abandoned Bunker
5 × 40% chance
1 × 40% chance nearby
Arktos Pharma
6 × 40% chance
Camden Park
6 × 40% chance
Charleston Landfill
6 × 40% chance
Dino Peaks Mini Golf
6 × 40% chance
Hemlock Springs Dump
6 × 40% chance nearby
Shining Creek Cavern
6 × 40% chance
Abbie's Bunker
5 × 40% chance
Carson Family Bunker
5 × 40% chance
Mama Dolce's Food Processing
5 × 40% chance
Red Rocket Mega Stop
5 × 40% chance
RobCo Research Center
5 × 40% chance
Show all 106 locations

Drops

What a kill leaves behind, averaged over every Glowing Radroach the map spawns. Kinds of loot stand for lists too long to spell out; the chance is how often the roll includes them, not how many turn up.

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Challenges

Challenge
Daily / Weekly
Kill a Glowing Creature
Daily ×1 · Weekly ×10
Any creature that spawns inside a nuke blast zone is glowing; during a rad storm about 1 in 6 are.