I’m over in the southwest corner of the state, near where the Frisco and Gila meet. I figure those typically lower desert critters follow the river up from Safford. There are Gila Monsters that come up this way too.
Florida has more trouble with exotics that dumb people bring in as pets. We have a colony of Tegu lizards a few miles from my house now:
They can grow up to four feet and can bite your finger clean off. They sell them as pets, and when people can't afford to feed them...