Spatially explicit measurements of forest structure and fire behavior following restoration treatments in dry forests

•Spatial analyses explored impacts on structural complexity and fire post-restoration.•Cuttings left aggregated clumpy patterns with many small and few large tree patches.•Vertical complexity changes were varied across, a result of mixed recommendations.•Treatments reduced wildfire behavior particularly in cases of extreme fire behavior.•Goals of creating complex forest structure and reducing behavior were non-competing.