Is a concolor fir (white fir) a good tree to plant in Indiana?
Concolor Fir (White Fir) can work here, with caveats. Still a young population in central Indiana, since most went in over the past 10-20 years as blue spruce replacements and are sold at garden centers under the "concolor" name. That means tree services here see planting-shock and wet-feet decline calls far more often than removals.
What you'd be signing up to clean up
Very low volume, since it holds needles for years and never carpets the ground the way a pine does. The distinctive litter is the cones: 4-5 inch cones stand upright on the upper branches and disintegrate on the tree scale by scale instead of dropping whole, giving a slow rain of purple-brown scales and bare central spikes rather than anything rakeable.
Where to keep it away from
It wants moist, well-drained ground and will not tolerate roots sitting wet through winter, which is the most common way one is lost here. The roots themselves pose no threat to drives, walks, or sewer laterals — the damage runs the other direction, with root rot in saturated clay, made worse by soil or mulch piled over the root flare at planting.
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