Data supporting "Burn Period: A use-inspired metric to track wildfire risk across the southwest U.S."

Comma delimited data file of derived daily meteorological metrics from hourly, gap filled  and quality controlled Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) data for Arizona and New Mexico (southwest U.S.) provided by the Climate, Ecosystems, and Fire Applications (CEFA) program at the Desert Research Institute (Brown, 2022, unpublished data). Data file contains daily average dewpoint temperature, air temperature, maximum Hot-Dry-Windy Index, maximum Fosberg Fire Weather Index, maximum vapor pressure deficit, and total number of hours/day with relative humidity below 20% for 124 RAWS from 2000-2022.