A significant proportion of children with seizures present with status epilepticus (SE), early in their disease. Our objective was to evaluate whether SCN1A variants predispose children to SE, outside of Dravet's syndrome. SCN1A analyses were performed in children aged 1 month to 16 years with at least one episode of status epilepticus (group A), and in children with short seizures only (group B). Clinical and genetic findings were compared between both groups. Total 99 children were included: 61 in group A, 38 in group B. SCN1A variants were found in 2 (3.3%) of 61 patients with status epilepticus and in 3 (7.9%) of 38 patients with short seizures. The difference between both groups was −4.6% (95% CI −18 to 5.1), and was not statistically significant (p = 0.37, Fisher's exact test). In four of these five children, seizures were observed in a GEFS+ familial context. The last patient had a generalized genetic epilepsy not further determined. SCN1A variants were not significantly more frequent in group A than in group B. Their predicted severity was not higher. Our results indicate that SCN1A variants per se do not determine seizure duration in children not affected by Dravet's syndrome.