Post-fire landscape evaluations in Eastern Washington, USA: Assessing the work of contemporary wildfires

•Moderate- and low-severity fire shifted closed- to open-canopy forest.•High- and moderate-severity fire restored patchworks of forest and non-forest.•Very-large patches of high-severity wildfire simplified landscape patterns.•Wildfires reconnected and compounded mismatches between vegetation and topography.•High-severity fire significantly reduced large-tree, closed-canopy forest.