List of North American deserts

This list of North American deserts identifies areas of the continent that receive less than 10 in (250 mm) annual precipitation.

The following are three major hot and dry deserts in North America, all located in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.

Other cold deserts lie within the Columbia Plateau/Columbia Basin, the Snake River Plain, and the Colorado Plateau regions.

(listed from north to south) The separately defined western arid regions of North America are continental regions of aridity based on available water in addition to rain shadow-diminished rainfall[3] and which have many non-desert shrub-steppe (EPA) and xeric shrublands (WWF) in addition to desert ecosystems and ecoregions.

This arid region extends from the top of the North American Desert in Washington and Idaho southward into Mexico in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.