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The fourth marathon run was announced on 4 May 2010, and began on 19 November 2010 at 6:00&nbsp;p.m. PST.<ref name=":10">{{cite web |url= http://desertbus.org/2010/05/04/mark-your-calendars/ |title=Mark your calendars! |author=Paul Saunders |date=4 May 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101121165316/http://desertbus.org/2010/05/04/mark-your-calendars/ |archive-date=21 November 2010 |url-status=live |access-date=17 November 2010}}</ref> Penn & Teller auctioned off an "Ultimate Desert Bus Experience Pack" which included a bus ticket and sand from the Las Vegas desert, signed by Penn & Teller themselves. The fourth run concluded after 5 days and 21 hours, with $209,482<ref name=":19" /> raised. A fifth marathon run began on 18 November 2011 and went for six days and six hours, raising a total of $383,125.10.<ref name=":19" />

Desert Bus 6 began Friday, 16 November 2012, and breached one million US dollars in lifetime donations on 19 November at 6:46pm<ref name=":11">{{Cite news |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FaUEaG35D4 |title=Daddy Ashton: Beware The Moon |author=DesertBusForHope |date=16 May 2012 |access-date=13 July 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120830225937/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FaUEaG35D4 |archive-date=30 August 2012 |url-status=live |via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{cite news |url= http://desertbus.org/2012/05/16/5680/ |title=Desert Bus 6 Announcements! |last=Heilke |first=Tally |date=16 May 2012 |access-date=13 July 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120604185958/http://desertbus.org/2012/05/16/5680/ |archive-date=4 June 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{cite news |url= https://www.facebook.com/DesertBus/posts/427205977303683?comment_id=5304825&offset=0&total_comments=14 |title=Announcement time! |author=Desert Bus for Hope |date=17 May 2012 |access-date=13 July 2012 |via=[[Facebook]] |archive-date=21 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121031739/https://www.facebook.com/DesertBus/posts/427205977303683?comment_id=5304825&offset=0&total_comments=14 |url-status=live}}</ref> Each subsequent fundraiser has raised more than the previous (with the exception of ''Desert Bus 2017'' and ''Desert Bus 2022''), and lifetime donations surpassed four million in 2017, five million in 2018, six million in 2019, seven million in 2020, eight million in 2021, and nine million in 2022, passingand 10ten million in 2023. Additionally, 2020 was the first year that they surpassed one million dollars in donations in a single year, after adding money raised through merchandise sales, and 2021 was the first year that they surpassed one million dollars in direct donations alone. The tenth year of Desert Bus was the subject of a documentary called "We Are Desert Bus" that was released in 2019.

Desert Bus for Hope 2020, the 14th year of the event, was held remotely across multiple locations due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], and is notable as the first year to, due to this restriction, not use actual Sega CD hardware, but instead a cloud-hosted emulator that could be passed between hosts using a web browser, a system they used again in 2021 and 2022. In 2021, Desert Bus was held in a 'hybrid' format, where half the event was in-person and half was held remotely. The event mostly returned to an in-person format for 2022, with the exception of the 12AM – 6AM 'Zeta shift', as well as all guests and some of the behind-the-scenes crew, before returning fully to an in-person format and original Sega CD hardware in 2023.