Thailand is past the peak of last week’s deluge, yet Monday’s ledger still looks grim. Disaster officials put the human toll at roughly 2.46 million people across twenty provinces and Bangkok as of dawn — nearly 909,000 households, a hundred districts, almost six thousand villages. Sunday’s count had climbed above three million, so the numbers are edging down without yet returning to normal.
Eastern provinces remain the worst scar. Prachin Buri lists more than 59,000 flooded homes and twenty-four dead; Chachoengsao and Nakhon Nayok each report household figures north of 50,000. Inside the capital the list of hit households sits near 329,000. Rivers are still climbing in Phitsanulok and Phetchaburi even as gauges elsewhere hold steady or fall.
Travel is fractured. Highway crews logged water on seventy-four road segments in thirteen provinces by late morning, and nine of those stretches — spanning Kanchanaburi through Phetchaburi, Rayong, Chachoengsao and Prachin Buri — were closed outright. Patrols are rotating around the clock to redirect traffic and help stranded residents.
Money has started to move. Five relief waves have already put more than 1.069 billion baht into 135,782 bank accounts. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who also runs the interior ministry and chairs the national disaster command, ordered governors to rebuild local recovery plans with hard finish dates and to clear unpaid aid claims seven days a week.
His other priorities are blunt communication and drainage. Warnings must use everyday language on loudspeakers and radio, he said, and staff must dig rubbish out of canals so floodwater can leave. Motorists are pointed to the free 1586 highway line and told to respect closed asphalt until the water truly retreats.
