Fire Magic’s Aurora range stops at 36 inches, and this is the model that gets there. The A790I-8EAN-W runs on natural gas, carries the Magic View Window, and lights a backburner.
Set its specification beside the 30-inch A660i and one number refuses to move. Divide output by grate area on either grill. Both answer 113.6 BTU per square inch.
So this is not a hotter Aurora. It is a wider one. Around $8,177.40 on the listing we hold, and the whole question follows from that.
What do six more inches of the same engineering actually buy?
First Impressions of the Fire Magic Aurora A790I
The lead frame shows exactly what the model code promises. A long pane of glass sits in the hood. Four knobs sit under it.
Three of those knobs are large and one is small. Each large knob runs a burner. The small one opens the backburner, which is why the code begins with an 8.
Nobody lifts this into a counter alone. The grill hangs from a stainless hanger measuring 42 1/4 inches across. That hole gets cut before delivery, not after.
Installation is also a warranty condition rather than a suggestion. Fire Magic requires the product installed and the gas connected by a qualified professional installer. The island also needs a weather-proof in-use GFCI receptacle. Without one the ignition element never glows.
A grill coded 8 wants a roast on it before it wants a steak. Twenty thousand BTU come off the back wall rather than the burner box. Fat leaves the meat with no flame sitting directly beneath it.
Key Features of the Fire Magic Aurora A790I
Fire Magic sells the Aurora as one design in five widths. The replacement parts table makes that literal, model by model. Most of what follows is shared with smaller Auroras. Two entries are worth holding onto.
- Stainless steel: Three cast 304 burners, a quarter of an inch thick. A lip above the ports keeps grease out.
- Diamond Sear cooking grids: Patented bars with a smooth flat top rather than a rounded one. Supplied here as set 23539-DS-3.
- Electric Igniter: Hot Surface Ignition. The element glows before gas follows. Five seconds without a light means closing the valve and waiting.
- Illuminated cooking surface: Two 12V 10 watt halogen lamps behind lenses, on 36 watts of low-voltage supply.
- Rotisserie: Backburner 24180-11H, fed through a #45 natural gas orifice. Only the heavy duty rod 3609-40 is listed at this width.
- Magic View Window: Part 24187-45, offered on the A660i and this model, listed N/A for the three smaller Auroras.
- Made in USA: Robert H. Peterson Co. builds it, and asks owners to register the serial number after purchase.
The first entry worth holding onto is that grid set. Number 23539-DS-3 shares its base with the 24-inch A530i’s 23539-DS-2. Fire Magic widened this grate by adding a section, not by casting a wider one.
The second is the window. It carries the identical part number on the 30-inch A660i. Nothing about the glass grew with the grill underneath it.
Start at the jet, because that is where the extra output comes from. This grill drills its natural gas orifices at #38, part 3001-38-3.
That is the largest main orifice anywhere in the Aurora range. The A660i takes #42, the A540i #44, the small A430i #42 again. The burner casting is the A660i’s own part 3041-50, three of them. Bigger hole, more gas, same metal.
Three of those burners total 90,000 BTU. The grate they heat measures 792 square inches. On the 30-inch model the figures are 75,000 and 660. Per square inch the two grills are indistinguishable.
So the gain here is reach rather than intensity. Three burners stretched across 36 inches leave real estate that a narrower grill cannot offer. Parking a rested brisket away from live flame is genuinely easier on this grate.
The backburner scales by the same logic. Twenty thousand BTU through a #45 jet, against 18,000 through a #48 on the A660i. Fire Magic also asks that griddles and pans never cover more than 75% of the surface.
Build, handling and durability
Depth is the quiet surprise in the specification. Front to back this grill asks for 23 1/2 inches of cut-out. That is precisely what the 30-inch Aurora asks. Maximum depth on both is 29 3/4 inches.
Every dimension that moves runs left to right. Hanger to hanger, 42 1/4 inches against the A660i’s 36 1/2. The control panel alone measures 38 1/4 inches wide.
Inside, the widening is done by repetition rather than redesign. The warming rack is the one component with a number entirely its own, 3675S-M. The flavor grid set copies the cooking grids. It takes the A530i’s base number, 3056, in a set of three.
Two items sit in the same table and not in the box. Insulating liner 3186-51 stops being optional the moment the surround is combustible. Wind deflector 23745-18 is also sold separately. Neither appears in the price of the grill.
Support is worth a sentence of its own here. Fire Magic states the grill must hang from that stainless hanger, resting on the countertop. Adjustment screws below the control panel carry the front edge. Nothing bears on the burner box.
Running costs, upkeep and value
Price is where the width question finally gets an answer in dollars. The listing on record captured around $8,177.40 on 17 September 2026. A dealer selling the identical SKU string asked exactly that figure the same day. A third seller asked $7,787.70.
Agreement that close is unusual on a Fire Magic model. It makes the next comparison a fair one.
The most useful comparison sits on one of those dealers’ own shelves. A790I-8EAN lists at $7,470.90. A790I-8EAN-W lists at $8,177.40. The window is the only difference, and it comes to $706.50.
Set that against the smaller Aurora. Back on 26 July 2026, the windowed A660i held on our own record sat near $4,790.60. Six inches of grate is the thing separating them, and it is not priced gently.
Then come the costs no listing carries. Somebody qualified has to install it, and the island needs that receptacle. The liner too, if the surround burns. Add a fitter for a 7 inch water column gas supply.
Upkeep, by contrast, is ordinary for the tier. Run it high with the hood down for ten to fifteen minutes, then brush the grids. Liners drop into drip tray 3084, and a grid lifter arrives in the carton.
Only two things ask for attention that the rest of the grill does not. Halogen bulbs burn out and get replaced. The pane wants a soft cloth rather than the brush the grids get.
Possible Fire Magic Aurora A790I Complaints
- The width is published three ways, and masonry is unforgiving: Fire Magic’s own page gives the cut-out as 37 inches wide. Table 3 of the 2024 manual says 37 3/4, and one dealer says 37 1/2. Front to back everybody agrees on 23 1/2. Build from the manual, and confirm the width before anyone cuts stone.
- Ninety thousand BTU is a bigger grill, not a hotter one: Spread over this grate the figure lands at the 30-inch model’s heat density exactly. A cook expecting fiercer heat per square inch will not find it here. Width instead gives you a corner where finished food can wait its turn.
