Features of near and far SOL heat fluxes on the Wendelstein 7-X inboard limiters H. Niemann 1,2 , M. W. Jakubowski 1,3 , F. Effenberg 4,5 , S. A. Bozhenkov 1 , B. Cannas 6 , D. Carralero 7 , A. Langenberg 1 , F.Pisano 6 , K. Rahbarnia 1 , L. Rudischhauser 1 , T. Stange 1 , F. Warmer 1 , G. A. Wurden 8 and the W7-X Team 1 1 Max-Planck-Institut f¨ ur Plasmaphysik, Wendelsteinstr. 1, 17491 Greifswald, Germany 2 Insitut f¨ ur Physik, Universit¨at Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany 3 University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland 4 Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA 5 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA 6 University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy 7 CIEMAT-Laboratorio Nacional de Fusin, Avda. Complutense 40, 28040 Madrid, Spain 8 Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA E-mail: Holger.Niemann@ipp.mpg.de Abstract. The power fall-off length is used as a characteristic dimension to describe the power exhaust in the scrape-off layer in magnetic confinement fusion devices. Measurements from the limiter campaign of the stellarator Wendelstein 7-X with inboard limiters are presented with the first-time characterization of the limiter heat loads. Two fall-off regimes are found with a narrow near SOL with power fall-off length in millimeters and a wider far SOL with fall-off lengths of several centimeters. An attempt is made to describe both regimes with a scaling law for plasma with different heating powers and densities. The results confirm the major geometry effects of the connection length on the heat transport predicted by 3D modeling. Submitted to: Nucl. Fusion Keywords : W7-X, stellarator, strike line, heat loads, limiter, fall-off length, scrape-off layer, plasma surface interaction