Most typhoons come ashore on the island’s sparsely populated east coast, but Danas scraped its crowded western edge. Nearly 300,000 households had no power on Monday.

Typhoon Danas lashed southern Taiwan with record winds and strong rain early on Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 630 in a rare hit to the island's densely populated west coast.

The National Fire Agency ordered 2,853 evacuations, mainly in the mountains near Kaohsiung. The Central Emergency Operation Center recorded 2,270 incidents, mostly damaged infrastructure and fallen trees across Tainan, Chiayi, Kaohsiung, and Yunlin. The Bangkok Post said more than 700 trees were uprooted in west-coast cities.