Your forest is an illustration of natural selection. The ones that would explode did so already.
Exploding trees are real, I remember them from my childhood around StLouis. But, once a forest is cleared of the ....”weak” ones nothing will happen for years until new trees grow up — and you get another cold snap.
I looked it up. The trees do not explode, as in an explosive charge. Water within the trees rapidly expands in a cold snap and will split the tree.
This happens to trees that are not native to a cold area.
I’ve spent many hours each year in the forest and never have I seen a tree that was split for anything other than a lightning strike. Our trees are native to the area for centuries.
The people writing the thread’s story are being overly dramatic.