"huge footprint" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the size and/or impact of something. For example, "The company left a huge footprint on the industry."
He left a huge footprint on American letters.
I don't think it's a huge footprint on the ground.
"We have a huge footprint in China, with a lot of employees there," he said.
Pakistan's largest Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islamia, has a huge footprint amongst Karachi's poor.
Account would now need to be taken of the huge footprint left by catastrophes like Cyclone Pam.
Butler believes that the "huge footprint" of publicly owned libraries "simply crowds out private and voluntary alternatives".
Those are huge footprints left here.
In an interview with me over the weekend on "The New York Times Close Up," a weekly program on NY1, Mr. Arad cited the emotional potency of the "voids" — the huge footprints of the twin towers that are now below-ground reflecting pools.
The trend is to move from small properties embedded in city areas that are crisscrossed by streets and small public squares, to projects that erase much of this public tissue of streets and squares via mega-projects with large, sometimes huge, footprints.
They are placed strategically around the city and have huge footprints.
We leave huge footprints all over the place and have been rather unsuccessful at solving urgent problems.
