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Glowing Wendigo
Fallout 76 NPC Type

Glowing Wendigo is one of the Wendigos in Fallout 76, met at level 75. Killing one usually drops 5 kinds of loot. Less often it leaves 5 kinds of loot.

It spawns at 11 locations in Appalachia. The largest counts are at Big Maw, Abbie's Bunker and Shining Creek Cavern. It counts toward 2 daily and weekly challenges.

Level
75
Health
1315

Find It on the Map

Open the Challenge Navigator with its 2 challenges added, then add the rest of today's challenges and plan one route for all of them.

Open the Challenge Navigator

Glowing Wendigo Spawn Locations

Found at 11 locations across Appalachia, 17 at chance spawn points. The largest share is at Big Maw (4 × 25% chance).

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.

Big Maw
4 × 25% chance nearby
Abbie's Bunker
3 × 25% chance nearby
Shining Creek Cavern
2 × 25% chance
Crashed Plane
1 × 25% chance nearby
Excelsior Model Home
1 × 25% chance nearby
Haven Church
1 × 25% chance nearby
Old Danielson Cabin
1 × 25% chance nearby
Old Rag Lookout
1 × 25% chance nearby
The Chop Shop
1 × 25% chance
Transmission Station 1AT-U03
1 × 25% chance
Wendigo Cave
1 × 25% chance

Drops

What a kill leaves behind, averaged over every Glowing Wendigo 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.

Family

Challenges

Challenge
Daily / Weekly
Kill a Glowing Creature
Daily ×1 · Weekly ×10
Take a Camera Picture of a Glowing Cryptid
Epic Weekly ×1
Kill a Glowing Creature
Any creature that spawns inside a nuke blast zone is glowing; during a rad storm about 1 in 6 are.
Take a Camera Picture of a Glowing Cryptid
Any of 4
The dimmed ones have no fixed place on the map.
Any creature that spawns inside a nuke blast zone is glowing; during a rad storm about 1 in 6 are.